 | Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.48 This one seems like As You Like It, only not as funny.
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 | An Awfully Big Adventure (Bainbridge, Beryl) by Beryl Bainbridge
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 Strange book. Very well-written.
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 | Grendel by John Gardner
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.66 Existentialism and Anglo-Saxon all in one!
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 | The Bride by Julie Garwood
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 My first smut novel... Complete with a Scottish accent!
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 | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate Dicamillo
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.03 Perfect book. Not just for children.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Excellent use of an unusual voice in a work of fiction.
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 | How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.95 Thoroughly informative, and interesting too.
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 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $0.43 Best book ever!
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 | Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.10 I understand why it is so widely acclaimed now. Amazing.
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 | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.68 Really ironic, and easy to read.
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 | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 A bit thick, but stick with it. It's a truly wonderful and timeless novel.
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 | Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Edmond Rostand
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite love story.
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 | Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one was one of my most unexpected finds this year. I love McKinley.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $1.41 Thought-provoking, and enlightening.
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 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.09 This one has so much STUFF in it I could write a thesis about it.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.35 I couldn't put this one down.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Same as #16.
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 | Touch of the Wolf (Historical Werewolf Series, Book 1) by Susan Krinard
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.18 Actually a decent read, unlike some romance novels. I liked it.
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 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.50 Hysterical.
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 I would have liked this one more if I'd read it as a kid. The movie was great!
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 | The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 One of my new favorites; I plan to read all of his stuff now.
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.95 Chaucer is a genius.
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 | Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics) by Kamala Markandaya
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 Very sad, but not depressing, as it could have been.
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 | The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $4.50 / Used from: $0.01 It really is an awakening experience, reading this book. Maybe it's the water imagery.
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 | Persuasion (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: $0.01 The darkest Austen book I've ever read. Lovely.
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