 | The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.49 A good read is hard to find. Stories this good must rise.
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 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.49 From the quotidian to fantasy land in leaps and bounds, with spiritual discovery along the way.
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 | This Craft of Verse (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $6.86 Droll and erudite lecture series on the verse, from the master of magical realism.
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 | Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Buy used from: $19.00 You do not have to be a fan of OULIPO to appreciate this wonderful book. Perec's power of description takes you right there, you do not have to leave your home.
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 | The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Heinrich Böll
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.82 Frighteningly real. Makes you wish you led a hermetic life.
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 | The Clown (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Heinrich Böll
Buy used from: $4.75 Moving.
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 | The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 An allegory of human nature deftly told.
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 | The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Buy used from: $0.01 Stories you will read over and over.
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 | Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.37 Why leave the house when you can re-read the chapters in different sequence? The narrrative and the language are both compelling enough, only Cortazar can get away with such games.
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| Around the Day in Eighty Worlds by Julio Cortazar
Buy used from: $9.69 You will be charmed. If you can get your hands on this light-hearted gem, you are a lucky reader.
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $2.56 My favorite Kundera. A book you will not forget.
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 | All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.07 A social commnetary of modern Japan in the guise of a mysetry novel. Too bad this is the only title by Miyabe available in English.
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 | The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.28 Delicious. The workings of a mind reminiscent of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess."
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 | The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Robert Musil
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $2.82 As powerful as Schlondorf's superb film adaptation.
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 | The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987: Bilingual Edition by Octavio Paz
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $8.75 A brilliant translation of the great poet's best works.
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 | Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum
Buy used from: $4.50 Well-researched and well-written tome on the noble fruit.
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 | The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy used from: $8.38 This book will turn you into a Kapuscinski fan. Some of the best reportage writing.
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| Tennessee Williams: Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
Buy used from: $0.10 You will encounter some of the most memorable characters here.
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 | The Grass Harp: Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman Capote
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.20 A poignant tale of two quirky old ladies and an orphaned boy. Rivals Christmas Memory.
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