 | Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Buy used from: $5.75 or any Stegner, really, but these two get special mention
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 | Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) by Wallace Earle Stegner
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.24 |
 | Independence Day by Richard Ford
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 read this whole trilogy...I went 2-1-3 and it was fine.
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 | What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.00 |
 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $9.95 all of her work is exceedingly good
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 | The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy used from: $1.90 this is also a really well-read audiobook
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $2.04 |
 | Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 his essays area great, too
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 | A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Norman Maclean
Buy new: $8.40 / Used from: $2.95 from my old western men phase
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 | Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.22 Is this really just about a fire? "As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While the oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love..."
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 | Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.55 he had such a great ability to make science interesting and enjoyable
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 | This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 "you do what you think is right, and I'll support you the best I can"
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| All the King's Men (Modern Library #170) by Robert Penn Warren
Buy used from: $11.00 |
 | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.06 I will never complain about how hard my job is again
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $1.73 "that's my Middle West..."
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 | The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.72 Chicago
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 | Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 if you had once sentence for your child, wouldn't it be this?
"...if you ever wonder what youve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been Gods grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle."
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 | Mr. China: A Memoir by Tim Clissold
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $2.42 perhaps the best book on international business, probably because it transcends business
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 | Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.60 was LBJ a godsend who delivered civil rights and medicare, or the biggest SOB who ever walked the planet? Caro reports, you decide
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 | Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 a great popularizer of architecture and space. I will read anything of his sight unseen
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 | A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $29.95 like poetry...you can just read bits and pieces and know how to make the world around you a better place. I heard later this is considered the first hypertexted book
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 | Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $3.40 he's not quite western, but he was rural, old, and grumpy enough to fit into that phase
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 | Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence A Cunningham
Buy used from: $59.39 a wealth of information that, despite Buffet's ubiquity, remains little applied
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.96 changed the way I look at the world
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 | A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.46 A. funny. I don't find good novels funny very often, even when they're trying to be, but this was funny
B. stunning in its ability to create worlds so far from your own but so familiar in what we all have in common
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 | Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.99 sleepy baby, happy daddy
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 I will never complain about being cold or hungry again
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 | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.27 or any Bryson. He also has a weird voice that turns out to be great for reading his own audiobooks
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 triply good on audiobook
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 | The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $10.00 big fan of Thaler and regret not taking his course in grad school - "Nudge" is also good but repackages a lot of this one
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![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Cz7mSihbL._SL75_.jpg) | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $18.71 / Used from: $4.56 read the original NYT magazine article by Dubner and was hooked. they had me at "freak"
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $22.02 / Used from: $15.48 I keep trying to get the graph-makers at work to read this
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 | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.69 one of the best works of urban/regional history ever. answers the question Why Chicago in a way that grounded me to that city while I was living there and forver
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