 | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.76 Read the title and you'll know why this book made the list. It doesn't matter whether you're among the faithful to enjoy this book - you just need an open mind and a willingness to laugh, maybe even at your own beliefs.
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 | Candide (A Norton Critical Edition) by Voltaire
Buy new: $13.29 / Used from: $1.06 A short, funny adventure story with big ideas about the existence of evil and suffering in the world. A classic.
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 | Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.20 I am a huge fan of Vonnegut and it was difficult to restrict myself to just one of his works for this list. A must-read that is as relevant today as when it was written. If you're looking for other works by Vonnegut, I suggest Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions and Welcome to the Monkey House.
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 | The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) (v. 1, 2, 3) by Bill Watterson
Buy new: $94.50 / Used from: $89.00 Quite simply brilliant. Calvin's observations innocently point out the many absurdities of our daily lives.
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 | Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $3.93 One of the all-time greatest books about war.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 It actually tells you the meaning of life.
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 | A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.19 I read this recently and it is an impressive first novel. The narrative pace is brisk and yet Toltz manages to incorporate a lot of big ideas and bigger questions into this work - often in ways that made me laugh out loud.
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 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $2.25 You can't have a list with this title without including a work by Twain. Assuming you've already read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, this is one to put on your list.
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 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.26 Darker and certainly more adult, this book without question meets the criteria of this list.
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