 | Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.48 Classic adventure, worth reading even if you've seen any of the dozens of film adapatations.
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 | Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $1.10 perhaps overly long, but still one of the best pieces of literary fiction available.
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 | Foe (B.Coetzee) (Spanish Edition) by J. M. Coetzee
Buy used from: $11.65 Metafictional masterpiece, incredibly inspiring.
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 | Things That Never Happen by M.John Harrison
Buy used from: $25.52 Real-world struggles with touches of fantasy, literary fiction to draw you and inspire you.
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 | Skin by Kathe Koja
Buy used from: $0.38 Also try "Strange Angels", which oddly isn't listed on the product search feature of Listmania!.
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics) by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $3.67 Philosophy lessons disguised as a wonderful, heartfelt, metafictional novel.
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 | The Once and Future King by Terence Hanbury White
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.03 The "Sword in the Stone" collection: brilliantly executed, at times powerfully touching and childishly silly, this is great entertainment and great writing.
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 | Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by William Golding
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.19 Unmissable literary fiction by one of the best; the antecedant for so many substandard pieces of fiction and film, but unspoiled in its genius by the fact.
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 | The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.94 Feminist fairy tales bleeding with poetry, emotion and surprises. A staggeringly good read.
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