 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: $17.97 Easily the best book ever written. I can't even understand someone not liking this book.
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 | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Dirk Gently's adventures continue with this book, which I feel is better than the first.
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 | Coming Up for Air (Harvest Book) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.39 1984 and Animal Farm are both good, but I liked this book more.
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 | Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.40 I've read all of Vonnegut's books and none made me reevaluate my values as much as this one.
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 | Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I like the way this was written. I can only describe it as endearingly eccentric.
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 | The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 This was much better than Shopgirl, which was also good. At the very least this book will make you feel less neurotic.
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 | Amerika by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.99 This should be taught in schools instead of The Metamorphisis. If you read this, try to remember that Kafka had never been to America when he wrote it.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: $0.01 I almost think it's generic to have this book on my list, but it is really good and deserves to be here.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 It's surprising how few people have read this book. It put the word "grok" in the dictionary and is a great book if for no other reason than that.
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 | The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I really didn't think this would be good, but it was one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.
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 | Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright
Buy used from: $0.01 This book should be taught along side Invisible Man.
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 | Flowers for Algernon: Student Edition by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 If it's good enough for the writers at Newsradio, it's good enough for me.
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 | The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Buy used from: $1.69 How this isn't as famous as Verne's other books is beyond me.
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 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.01 An excellent story coupled with scientific whimsy. Classic Verne.
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