 | Sphere by Michael Crichton
Buy used from: $0.01 Science-ish, fast-read, thriller. Fascinating for such a quick read. Psychology very interesting in such a situation.
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 | The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.46 Very good read for anyone interested in a life in science. Feynman is such a wonderful person for being so genuine, curious, and sharing.
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 | The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not as thought provoking as Sphere, but still a nice read, anticlimatic ending and jaded subject (written in Crichton's medical school days, you see).
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 | Bambi by Young-Ha Park
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.47 Like cotton candy, sweet and fun and short.
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 | From Far Away, Volume 1 by Kyoko Hikawa
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.53 Exasperatingly stereotypical characters, yet cute and fun.
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 | From Far Away, Vol. 2 by Kyoko Hikawa
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.45 ...and the ball of exasperation and cuteness continues...
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 | From Far Away, Vol. 3 by Kyoko Hikawa
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.39 ...and continues...til the library runs out, which makes me somewhat sad...
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.85 Oh my gosh, so hilarously thoughtful!! Man, I wish I could have met him.
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 | From Far Away, Vol. 4 by Kyoko Hikawa
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.37 Nice and fast, very fun.
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 | From Far Away, Vol. 5 by Kyoko Hikawa
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.92 Yeah, fun.
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 | The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $0.01 Her characters are subtly created and go beyond stereotypes. The metaphor of the immigrant life to a pregnancy is most striking. Fitting end for Gogol--begin to learn.
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 | The Flight of the Innocents by Lin Yutang
Buy used from: $1.48 I've never read a book by a Chinese person originally written in English. Ought to be very fascinating style and subject matter.
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Next by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.13 |
 | The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why by Richard Nisbett
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $6.25 Read about it in a Times article in English class.
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 | The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.50 Recommendation from camp.
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 | Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 by Michael R. Beschloss
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $0.01 Newsweek
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 | The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 He's speaking at my graduation(!)
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 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.90 |
 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: $1.56 |
 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
Buy used from: $0.78 |
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