![]() | The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.99 WOW... you have no idea what you're getting yourself into when you read this book...prepare to be completely stunned
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: $14.61 / Used from: $2.85 after reading book one, you have to read all 7 (after the last book comes out this summer), and no, watching the movies doesn't even begin to do the books justice
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![]() | Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $4.45 you will NEVER expect what happens in this book...a disturbingly beautiful novel
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![]() | The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.46 O'Brien's unconventional narration makes this novel viebrantly real....the violence, the grit and the raw emotions of the Vietnam War are laid bare for the reader to experience them
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![]() | La ciudad de las bestias (serie infinita) (Spanish Edition) by Isabel Allende
Buy used from: $13.82 being Puertorican, Spanish is my native language; however,the genre of children's literature in Spanish is so lacking that I didn't find a book I liked until I read Allende's La ciudad de las Bestias when I was 12
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![]() | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $1.98 you will look at lightness, weight or existnece in the same way...and trust me, you have to read it to undestand what I mean
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![]() | La pasion segun Antigona Perez (Spanish Edition) by Luis Rafael Sanchez
Buy used from: $8.00 this play by a puertorican author is a remake of Sofocles Antigone set in a latinamerican dictatorship, and having read both, I can truly say that this one is far more tangible and amazing
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![]() | Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, Book 1) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.50 this book and its sequel, Trickster's Queen, are amazing and clever fantasy novels....also, Pierce's quartets set in the fictional kingdom of Tortall are fun novels
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![]() | De Amor y de Sombra by Isabel Allende
Buy used from: $9.55 I read Allende's children series before any of her other books, and her books for adults are truly far more impressive, especially in the way in which she deals with the reality of Latinamerican politics
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![]() | La Vida Es Sueno by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.90 a historic spanish play that truly leaves you wondering if all this is just a dream...."el mayor bien es pequeño, que toda la vida es sueño y los seños sueños son"
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![]() | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.12 definitely a must... it is great to read a novel about Africa in the midst of my Eurocentric education
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![]() | Niebla (Spanish Edition) by Miguel de Unamundo
Buy used from: $6.97 an existential novel in which Unamuno, the author, makes his prescence known in a highly unusual way...
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![]() | A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 I loved the way in which minor changes in the past dramaticaly altered the future..
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![]() | Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.99 a refreshing new take on the biblical story...
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![]() | The Mystery of the Blue Train: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.32 Agatha Christie is probably the best mistery writer....
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![]() | The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 whan I was little I probably read every single nancy drew book, and this was my favorite
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![]() | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 this book is beautiful...i cried so much one night reading this book that my sister woke up and asked me what was wrong
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![]() | His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $10.49 I bumped into pullman's books by accident and loved them... loved the parallel worlds and everything that existed in them, includin the daemons
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![]() | The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: $0.01 a completely different concept form the His Dark Materials Trilogy, but I loved it just the same
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![]() | Margarita (Coleccion Rimas Y Adivinanzas) (Spanish Edition) by Ruben Dario
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.99 a gorgeous poem that I know by heart ever since I was a little girl....makes you believe that you can find your own star in life
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![]() | Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 I still remember the rhymes jaja...
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![]() | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.08 the best part is when they describe gatsby's smile....which "understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood"...
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![]() | Quintuples/ Quintuple (Spanish Edition) by Luis Rafael Sanchez
Buy used from: $7.96 talk about multiple personalities....
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![]() | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.24 this is the kind of book you grow up with....I swear, I feel like it could have been my life, it becomes so real
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![]() | The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $26.32 / Used from: $14.90 my favorites were "the horse and his boy" and "the voyage of the dawn treader"....the latter reminds me of homer's oddysea
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![]() | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 this is like getting introduced to the world of Middle Earth before sitting down for a loooong talk in the Lord of the Rings
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![]() | Hamlet (Arkangel Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.99 really makes you think about life, death, loyalty and betrayal...
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![]() | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I have a fascination for all things japanese.....sushi, kimono-style clothing, japanese music, miso soup, and geisha....this book is a window into their world, the painfully beauty which they carried as both a blessing and an unbearable burden............the movie is also gorgeous
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![]() | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $3.88 poe was disturbed, and we get to enjoy and get freaked out by the workings of his erie mind....the best are "anabelle lee", "the cask of amontillado", "the raven", and "the fall of the house of usher"
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![]() | Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 an amazing story of love and femenine independence....i believe that that is the best whay to fall in love, when you don't want to but you fall in love in spite of all your objections
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![]() | Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) by L. M. Montgomery
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 a spirited book about discovering the best in yourself...
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![]() | El Burlador De Sevilla: Edicion De Alfredo Rodriguez Lopez-Vazquez (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) by Tirso de Molina
Buy used from: $3.37 this book will deinitely shed some light on what a "don juan" is....meet the ultimate ladies man
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![]() | The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 its impossible to not fall in love with this novel or the movie....
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![]() | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics) by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $4.25 I started to try to read this book at age 10....took me a while to realize it was far too dense for me back then,
but in any case, what I did read left a profound impression on me.....that we must allways stay on the tip of the rabbit's fur and watch in marvel as the magician performs his trick.....never lose the faculty of wonder
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![]() | Romeo & Juliet (Arkangel Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.95 the most amazing love story, and shakespere's verse is unparalleled.....I also love his sonnet "shall I comapre thee to a summer's day"
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![]() | The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $42.50 this series is EPIC!!! Tolkien was a literary genius....he even invented languages!!....i used to love to set his songs from the books to my own music
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![]() | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Buy used from: $0.01 I regret having watched the movie before reading the book, for i spent all my tears in the movie when the book is far more heartwrenching....a superb lesson on healing,forgiveness, and hope
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![]() | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Buy used from: $0.01 mystic......a tangled web of people, places and events that in the end become one mother and one daughter, each desperately trying to understand the other and wanting to be undestood in turn
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![]() | A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 makes me never want to be anyone's doll
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