 | Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.91 An entertaining read with interesting observations.
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 | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $8.98 A suprisingly well-written and entertaining book by a man of extraordinary generosity and humor. He knew the courage it takes to oppose one's own country in time of war.
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 | Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $5.30 I don't consider myself a science fiction fan, but this book left a very strong impression with me. A cult classic that I've read more than once.
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 | Rudyard Kipling Collected Short Stories (The Great Author Series) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy used from: $9.98 This is the first time I have picked up Kipling. His short stores are wonderful! For fun, I can recommend "Mrs. Hausbee Sits Out". For something deeper, "The Finest Story in the World".
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 | World Without End by Ken Follett
Buy new: $12.87 / Used from: $6.12 This was a great novel with impeccable attention to detail.
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 | Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $5.48 This book was very educational - The good and the bad of the British in India.
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 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $10.95 An absorbing read. There are fascinating parallels to the present. I highly recommend this book.
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 | Brothers in Law by Henry Cecil
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $4.75 More lawyer humour!
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.00 A controversial novel, but I believe that it should be compulsory reading.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.48 A brilliant novel.
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 | The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.01 Lawyer humour.
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 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.53 An oldie but a goodie. Les Miserables comes in at close second.
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 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy used from: $5.40 O'Brien's saga is wonderfully written with beautiful, fluid prose, and very-well researched. I even have the cookbook, "Lobscouse and Spotted Dog" which sets out recipes to all of the foods referred to in O'Brien's novels...admittedly, not all are appealing (Millers Stew...ugh).
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 | The Four Just Men - Edgar Wallace by Edgar Wallace
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $5.94 When this was originally published, it was without the final chapter - set in about 1900's crime fighters/anarchists who took the law into their own hands (but cerebral). There was a competition to guess the method by which the Secretary of State was murdered - a good, fun read.
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 | Blind Corner by Dornford Yates
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.48 A great treasure hunt sent in 1920s Austria. I love this author and would recommend any of his books.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Dover Value Editions) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $4.04 Three men and their dog take a trip up the Thames in 1890s. This is definitely one of the funniest stories ever written.
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