 | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovaly
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $8.36 Just read it - her voice will stay with you the rest of your life.
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 | Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.75 Honestly anything by TOM ROBBINS is a great way to spend a weekend.
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 | The Power of One: A Novel by Bryce Courtenay
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.80 This is one I would never had read except a friend kept pestering me about it. I mean really a boxing story. Hands down one of the most captivating books I have ever read. - be careful not to substitute with the film, that movie version cuts out almost half the book.
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 | The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.98 Perhaps Neal Stephenson's fines novel
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 | The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $4.96 Seriously read it. So, so very very good.
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 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.12 There is a good reason this is always put on those summer reading lists
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.50 I really do love it
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy used from: $9.78 Because you could never be too educated
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.02 Don't miss the bits that are hidden through out the book, hit start by looking amongst the copywrite.
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 | She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I know, I know Oprah recommends it, so you won't go near it with a ten foot pool. Well your a fool. This is a really good story.
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 | You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $9.39 A little poetry never hurt anyone
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 | The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Boxed Set! Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure by Anne Rice
Buy used from: $59.89 Ok, I warn you if your a parent these books are rated NC-17. But they are really a fun time to be had.
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 | The Gunslinger Born Comic Slipcase 1-7 - Limited Edition (Dark Tower Series)
Buy new: $34.95 Honestly, I don't like Stephen's kings writing so much, but this series is like candy I think I read the first three books in a weekend.
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 | Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief) by Anne Rice
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $18.92 I don't know if I would have gotten through jr. high and high school without these books. Again they are like candy. Not so good for your reading skills but yummy none the less.
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 | The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 I put this in here not just on its own* but the entire series of books is such a wonderful world.
*although it stands on its own quite nicely too.
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 | Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.19 Really great essays. Great for commuters.
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 | With Roots in Heaven : One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of her Faith by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Buy used from: $6.70 your following a woman from no faith, to eventual finding her own, but not in a way you would think.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy used from: $7.77 If you like Tom Robbins you should read this.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $7.07 Because its cheeper than doing drugs
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 | The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.49 I love distopias - so If your only going to read one try this one with a feminist twist.
Also: Catch- 22, We, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughter House Five, and a few others I'm sure you can quickly google.
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 | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Again another really wonderfully written story
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.86 Its an even better read as an adult.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.98 I read this one summer while working in the heat of Hershey Park, the book ended up bring passed around to all of the dancers
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