![]() | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $5.51 forced us to acknowledge aids
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![]() | Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.69 There is also a sequel called Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Trouble Began. This is the comic that redrew history. It won a Pulitzer in a special category that they created just for this book!
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![]() | Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition by Peter D. Kramer
Buy new: $11.87 / Used from: $0.01 the book that got america popping pills
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![]() | Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $8.03 the book that explained autism from the inside out
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![]() | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.34 the book that changed the min. wage
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![]() | Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $26.90 / Used from: $5.91 ill fated expedition on Mt. Everst. "With enough determination any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said mountaineer Rob Hall, leading his 8th expedition. Hall didnt get back down alive but this journalist survived (1 in 4 people die on the way down the mountain)
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![]() | The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
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![]() | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $0.01 won a Pulitzer
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![]() | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.29 the book that made us find treasure. a tale of a Spanish shepherd on a spiritual journey who is also looking for treasure near the pyramids, very new age.
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![]() | The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method by Allen Carr
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.37 25 million stopped because of this book but should it be on the list?
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![]() | A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
Buy used from: $2.90 superb writer, very underrated nowadays
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![]() | What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.93 the book that rebuilt a village. He received only enough money from the profits of this book to go to college and all the rest went to rebuilding his hometown. I also recommend A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by this author, a memoir of losing his parents and caring for his brothers
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![]() | On Writing by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.70 Bold statement to put him here but he did revolutioniz the horror industry and more importantly this is his how to book!
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![]() | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.57 an intriguing writer but to me, he is more in the vain of those apathetic characters like in Catcher in the Rye. You may also want to check out the work of the famous Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe as well.
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![]() | The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.88 the book that revealed the story of free blacks who owned slaves
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $7.18 Duke professors are actually on the way to designing invisibility cloaks! no lie
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![]() | How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.21 you can be miserable and still appreciate it
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![]() | The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.93 all 1980s fad and wallstreet power here
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![]() | Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $10.40 I still can't believe this guy committed suicide last year! a book worth reading about a future of corporate power and addicted citizens
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![]() | The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
Buy used from: $1.87 an excellent writer, very hot, very mid century
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![]() | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $6.68 / Used from: $0.29 I have always been more of a fan of Sula and Bluest Eye, but this won the big Pulitzer and she received the Nobel, one of the only American to do so in two decades!
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![]() | The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.48 I remember enjoying this in high school and college but it seems now so overly done, so over rated. Yet, the book is still prediciting our future about sex slavery and fertility
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![]() | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $14.48 / Used from: $4.49 the human side of economics-- if that really exists!
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![]() | Eats, Shoots & Leaves Illustrated Edition by Lynne Truss
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $6.94 this is a wonderful book, very funny and educational. yes, it is about grammar and our usage of it but everyone should read it! Lots of good parodies too about this book out there!
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![]() | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $2.44 anyone in marketing should know this as Pepsi took a cue from this book when launching its vitamin water!
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