 | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.45 I STILL can't get this one out of my head...sociological, but very HUMAN.
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 | Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.01 Interesting; fairy-tale-esque...don't let the first chapter scare you.
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 | Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Julia Scheeres
Buy new: $19.66 / Used from: $0.01 Most moving book I've ever read...
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 | The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.01 Epic...kind of Amy Tan-ish. I read it in two days, and it's long.
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $3.32 / Used from: $0.01 I wish Augusten was my boyfriend, but I don't think I'm his type...
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 | All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $0.01 On the bright side: better her than me...
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.35 I love Mary Roach...I wish she was my best friend. I even wrote her a fan letter.
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 | Haunted : A Novel of Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy used from: $1.70 I was so totally grossed out that I had to buy ALL of his other books...just to keep my eye on him...
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 | Red Scarf Girl (rpkg): A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sigh.
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 | Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes by Gris Grimly
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.44 I LOVE Gris (as in "in love")...like Tim Burton, but not as...popular(?) Whatever.
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 | Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.31 Another author I'm in love with. As in "in love". My heart's big enough for a harem. Ahem.
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 | Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers
Buy used from: $5.26 Some stories are great, some aren't. Skip the bad ones.
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 | The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John D. Marks
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.42 Nothing's quite so delicious as global paranoia.
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 | Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change by Flo Conway
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $1.99 This is a great book...I actually read it (from the library) and liked it so well I bought it.
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Gorgeous writing...apparently, MY childhood was far more normal than I thought.
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 | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.01 See my "paranoia" comment, above.
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 | The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories by Tim Burton
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $5.93 See my comments about Gris above.
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 | Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $4.55 Bukowski is King.
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 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: $33.02 Roald Dahl is bitterly creative, the virtue I most admire in others.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.94 Brilliant and sad.
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 | The Collector Collector: A Novel by Tibor Fischer
Buy used from: $0.01 Impress your friends...
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 | The Ha-Ha: A Novel by Dave King
Buy used from: $0.01 Bet you don't know what a ha-ha is...I didn't.
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 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 See comment on "Running with Scissors" above.
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 | Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.48 Ellison made me realize science fiction CAN be amazing.
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 | Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters) by Wally Lamb
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.75 Good heavens...talent ABOUNDS.
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