 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 This is only the first of 20 solid books of naval adventure in the age of Napoleon, featuring British navy captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey and his friend, musical partner, physician, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin.
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 | Hornblower : Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.00 Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - THIS was the first novel featuring Forester's tactically brilliant British naval officer Horatio Hornblower.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.60 This is a grimly hilarious, psychedelic novel of WWII American bomber crews experiencing the absurdity of war.
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 | As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.43 A mindblowing, experimental novel about a profoundly twisted family in the mid-20th-century US South.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 The most heartbreakingly perfect novel by Charles Dickens.
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 | The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.60 My personal ideal of the hardboiled genre, this book hits you like a fist in the gut.
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 | An Embarrassment of Corpses by Alan Beechey
Buy used from: $0.19 More people need to read this naughtily funny and staggeringly clever mystery.
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 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $2.98 Peter Jackson's film trilogy was awesome, but the books are even awesomer (to coin a word - something JRR Tolkien did frequently). It may take a bit of work to get into the lingo and enter the world, but once you do, you are caught and will be compelled to go on a terrifying, exciting, and deeply moving quest with Frodo and his companions.
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 This is an excellent fairy tale for adults only!
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 | The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.97 This is the beginning of the hilarious Dortmunder series about New York's cleverest sad-sack cat burglar.
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 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.34 This book is one of American literature's most touching depictions of growing up poor in the big city.
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Here is a melancholy coming-of-age romance from the author of "The 101 Dalmatians."
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 | Atticus: Novel, A by Ron Hansen
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.01 A grieving father travels to Mexico to seek the truth about the apparent suicide of his most loved, but troubled, son.
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.72 The best way to describe this side-splittingly funny, and yet often philosophical, science fiction series is to call it "Monty Python meets Lost in Space."
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 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 An exquisitely convincing counterfeit of an early-19th-century novel from an alternate England in which magic exists.
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 | Salome (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 The incredibly icky, yet utterly hypnotic drama that inspired Richard Strauss' scandalous opera.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A breathtakingly lovely novel about racial hatred, murder, injustice, drug abuse, and mental illness in a small town, seen through the eyes of two small children who love their father.
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