 | Love At Ground Zero: A Novel by Charles Deemer
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.40 I've always been a sworn enemy of "Romeo and Juliet"-type stories, but what Deemer brings to it is classic.
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 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.97 A brilliant study of obsession. Mishima's true masterpiece, in my opinion.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $16.99 I was a fan of the Gospel of Fantasy almost 20 years before Jackson's movies, mind you.
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 | Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $1.76 One of the greatest novels of the Romantic Age. Fell in love with it as a teenager. NOTE: Only read Unabridged.
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.35 A must for anyone who loves Ancient Epic Literature. NOTE: This is my favorite translation as well.
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 | Rights of Man and Common Sense (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Paine
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $7.49 Anyone who knows my own Philosophies of life know my debt to Tom Paine
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 | The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.30 Ditto.
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 | For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy used from: $5.60 And for who knows but never understood my political views.
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 | The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.39 Wow.
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 | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.98 Yes, I've actually read it. Yes, I loved it.
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 | The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $2.14 In this book, dedicated to Tolkein, Lewis puts a new face on Christian Apologetics.
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 | Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica) (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollonius of Rhodes
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.77 Yet another Ancient classic. What can I say?
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 | Jefferson the Virginian - Volume I (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 1) by Dumas Malone
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $3.33 Probably the best, definitely the most exhaustive biography of Jefferson. NOTE: I'm only putting the First Volume in this list. You can go to the other volumes from there.
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 | Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction
Buy new: $29.33 / Used from: $4.00 You wouldn't BELIEVE how important this book has been to me professionally
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 | The Elements of Music: Concepts and Applications, Vol. I by Ralph Turek
Buy new: $87.77 / Used from: $28.80 Or both volumes of this one. The best out there on the subject.
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 | Screenwright by Charles Deemer
Buy new: $31.99 For those of you who wish to write. Forget the books by the gurus, go with the best!
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 | Democracy: An American Novel (Modern Library Classics) by Henry Adams
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.23 Possibly the subject of a future opera. Hard read the first time, but man, what a good book!
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 | My Life by Bill Clinton
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $0.01 Hate the guy! Despised his Presidency! But what a good work of Fiction *laugh*
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 | Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera by William Berger
Buy used from: $2.69 For those who like commentary with their opera.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 The ONLY Dickens novel I ever liked.
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 | The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $19.99 Lesser Known Hugo, still in good form, might even be his best after Miserables.
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.29 O the language! The imagery! The total literary production! Nabokov was a genius!
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 | Camille: The Lady of the Camellias (Signet Classic) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy used from: $0.01 Amazing how you can still like a book years after the last time you read it.
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 | Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.97 One of Giardina's best. A modern classic on one of the darkest moments of American Culture
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 | The Overmountain Men by Pat Alderman
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $13.95 A nonfiction book celebrating another almost-forgotten moment in American culture - our first Free Settlement - Four years before the Declaration of Independence
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