 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Stick with it. The pay-off is amazing. If some one tried to describe this book to you, you'd say "There's no way some one could get away with that" but he does.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.50 Finally read it. Was amazed by the number of connections to others things I've read.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.60 More fun than I thought it would be. Characters are charming and believable.
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 | Underworld: A Novel by Don DeLillo
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $0.01 Wow, all of American pop-culture from 1950-2000 in 800 pages, plus eerie premonitions of 9/11.
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 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Better as a picture of life in Botswana than as a mystery.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $0.01 Read this book. #1 best pick. Up there with The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Great Gatsby.
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 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Overwhelmingly technical. Interesting,but I'm not going to read the other 19 books.
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 | The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $1.88 Funny frolick through the history of a New England family. More character sketch than novel. Not available from Audible.com
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 | Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic) by Sherwood Anderson
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Grim, depressing. Everyone has a secret, everyone is twisted, everyone likes to be naked.
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 | Notre-Dame of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 If you read it for the picture it paints of Medieval France and not for the plot, it's worth the time.
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 | A Red Death by Walter Mosley
Buy used from: $0.01 Brutal, but I liked it even better that Devil in a Blue Dress.
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 | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.01 Unrelenting tale of intrigue and betrayal, with 2 dimentional characters but brilliant negotiations of power.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $0.01 Read it. Read it again. Read it again. It's always better than you remember it being.
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 | A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $0.01 A great YA novel that will please adults. If you can tolerate another young precosiously articulate impoverished female narrator (ala To Kill a Mockingbird and Ellen Foster), you'll enjoy this mystery
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 | The Fire-Eaters (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards)) by David Almond
Buy used from: $0.01 A strange and sort of plotless character sketch of life in a English mining town during the Cuban Missile crisis. I loved it.
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 | Women in Love (Signet Classic) by D. H. Lawrence
Buy used from: $0.01 Complex psychological portrait of people who insist one believing that they are the first people to ever feel the way they do.
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 | Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics)
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Doesn't lose any of its charm even if you know who-dun-it before you read it.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 See note on Northern Light. Again, I loved it. Honest and charming at the same time.
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 | Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier
Buy used from: $0.01 Don't let the movie distract you; this is a complex and worthy novel.
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 | The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
Buy used from: $3.81 Get a good guide to go along with these. Not what I expected them to be even though I supposedly read them in college.
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 | The Aeneid by Virgil
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.46 Again, read the cliffs notes first so you know what you're getting into. You'll feel very smart when you're done.
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