 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.76 I don't think I have ever laughed at a book as much as when I read Joseph Heller's masterpiece
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Mandatory reading for teenagers. It's a cliche to read this in adolescence, but there's a reason for that
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy used from: $0.01 Don't listen to the troglodytes that will tell you this is a "children's fairy tale." Those people are lazy and ignorant. This is a deeply symbolic book with a powerful philosophical meaning.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.84 A great warning to the world. It should be noted that Orwell was a socialist...but his message is still powerful
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 | Frankenstein (Bantam Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 One of my personal favorites
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 | The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.09 Hemingway adds diversity to the list. Everybody reads this at some point
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 My favorite of Dickens
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $5.04 Perhaps my favorite writer...a master of more than just terror.
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 | William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: $11.50 If you haven't read Hamlet...you haven't read
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 | The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) by John Keats
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $10.92 Keats is one of my favorite poets. Read "Ode on a Grecian Urn" first
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 | The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $14.00 My favorite poet. I have this exact copy too. It's very good.
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 | Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by George Gordon Byron
Buy used from: $4.61 Byron is definitely not for everyone
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 | Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition) by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $8.00 Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" first
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 | Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.78 I personally enjoyed "In the Penal Colony" more than "Metamorphosis", you decide for yourself. Kafka is a master.
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 | Complete Verse by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $0.98 Great poetry that attracts a broad audience
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 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy used from: $0.01 The definition of an American novel
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 | The Oxford Book of English Verse
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $4.66 A great introduction to some of the greatest poetry ever written. It's expensive, but useful. I read my first Byron in this book
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 | The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $0.01 These last few are books I haven't read yet, but will soon
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.75 Kafkaesque
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 | The Trial by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.92 Gotta love the K-Man
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 | Amerika by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.99 It never ends
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