 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.44 School bussing in Boston goes to war
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 | A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.20 A funny-madman finds his inner demons and a manical love of football
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 | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $5.44 The Truman Capote of Jazz. Story of a Ellington's music mate
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.95 The book that inspired Hotel Ruwanda - better by far
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 | Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.98 Collection of one of the New Yorker Magazine's best writers
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 | Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.32 Each small story is a unique gem
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 | Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.00 A white south african man jailed within his own barren soul
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 | Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
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 | The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $10.80 A primer that inspired my freedom in writing
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 | The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
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 | A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $2.95 Japan like you've never seen it.
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 | South to a Very Old Place (Modern Library) by Albert Murray
Buy used from: $3.11 Once I caught the rhythm of this, I was hooked
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 | The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.21 A wonderful introduction to understanding the personal essay.
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 | A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.75 Wow! This guy is a legendary egoist but he CAN write.
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