 | Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $15.90 Perhaps the finest novel written in the 20th century.
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.19 Hauntingly beautiful novel set in Civil War North Carolina.
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 | Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $0.24 Fascinating account of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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 | The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008 of the 2006 publication) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.70 Post-apocalyptic nightmare. A father and son try to survive a world with no food, no shelter, inadequate clothing and unspeakably savage human survivors.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.27 Semi-sequel to Kite Runner from a female viewpoint.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $0.92 Outstanding novel detailing the family history of a hermaphrodite of Greek origin.
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 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.00 Will be especially enjoyable if you are bilingual and have an appreciation for Lord of the Rings. Otherwise, it will be a decent read, but somewhat confusing at times.
Chronicles the life of an immigrant family from the Dominican Republic. Very educational with respect to that country's political history.
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 | The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.73 Fascinating look into the human psyche aboard a World War II minesweeper.
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 | Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy used from: $4.99 War torn Afghanistan from the viewpoint of a young boy.
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.99 Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize, this novella sports fantastic imagery and symbolism.
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 | Inside, Outside: A Novel by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.07 A classic novel about growing up Jewish in America.
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 | Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Buy used from: $9.98 Vasily Grossman writes of the Battle of Stalingrad and the families of the people involved. Picture War and Peace in World War II.
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 | Dracula (Enriched Classics Series) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.60 Bram Stoker's Victorian classic.
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 | Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.27 CIA intrigue with the Vietnam War as a backdrop.
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.08 An American Communist volunteers for action in the Spanish Civil War. He falls in with a group of partisans and leads them on a mission.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.50 Hemingway novel following a group of American and British expatriates on an alcohol soaked journey to the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $12.09 An American volunteer fights on the Italian/Austrian front during WWI and meets a British nurse.
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