 | Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 always been a fan of science, more recently also a fan of history. this seems to combine both
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 | The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 volume set) (Set v) by Richard Phillips Feynman
Buy new: $63.69 / Used from: $63.05 first off, feynman is my god. and as i mentioned, i like science, so who better to relearn physics from?
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 | The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
Buy used from: $0.99 again, feynman=god. as you can tell, i was feeling sciency when i was adding these particular books to my list
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 | Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $6.25 i've read 'ishmael' and really enjoyed it. flipped some of my thoughts upside down, so i figured i'd read the next book...
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 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 read 'the fountainhead' and loved it. heard this was suppose to be even better. one of these days i'll buy the dang thing...
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 | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Buy used from: $0.01 'the little prince' used to be a cartoon i watched as a kid. apparently, it is a famous book! after reading the reviews of others, it seems like a parable with many layers that people cherish.
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.86 how can you not read a book with the tag "The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it."
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 | Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.32 it's a classic. i'm afraid i must own and read all the classics
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 | The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.35 huge fan of dostoevsky. read 'crime and punishment','notes from underground', and reading 'the idiot'. gonna own and read all his books.
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 | War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.35 see, i found myself on a russian lit kick after taking a class in college. read 'anna karenina', now must read this.
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 | Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath; The Mistress of Husaby; The Cross by Sigrid Undset
Buy used from: $7.53 "We consider it the best book our judges have ever selected and it has been better received by our subscribers than any other book," says the Book-of-the-Month Club.
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 | Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Buy used from: $0.43 i've read only one thomas wolfe book (acid test). this is suppose to be his most widely read, so i suppose i must read it.
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 | The Red and the Black (Signet classics) by Stendhal
Buy used from: $0.01 a book i found through listmania. read the reviews and and seemed like a book i'd like
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 | Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $0.01 a classic. didn't i mention i must own and read all the classics?
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.93 can you believe i've never read a book by hemingway!? there are more on my list...on other pages ofcouse
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 | Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.90 i've seen this book referred to in so many other books. again, classic. need i restate what i do with classics?
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 | The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.99 haven't read much dickens, and this seems like a good place to re-enter his lit world
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $6.74 classic and "The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. "
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 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 big fan of steinbeck, but never read his big ones like this or 'grapes of wrath'
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 | The Godfather (Signet) by Mario Puzo
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 i'm sicilian and ofcourse love the movies. but aren't the books always better?
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 | My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 by Alexander Alekhine
Buy used from: $14.98 big chess fan. alekhine is a beast.
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 | The Immortal Games of Capablanca by Fred Reinfeld
Buy used from: $5.31 i think casablanca beat alekhine, so...
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 | Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution by John Ferling
Buy used from: $2.47 since adding this, i've read 'american sphinx' and 'founding brothers' so my interest in this is dwindling
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 | The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
Buy used from: $2.00 i love bios cause they make me see what a worthless life i've lead.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 good movie, book must be better. plus, modern classic
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