 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.99 One of my current reads. Murakami paints a nice picture.
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 | Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Finished it. Loved it. I laughed out loud on several occasions and I don't laugh... ever.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Great perspective.
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 | Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.80 We're still working on this one. I've finished Mason & Dixon, Vineland & Gravity's Rainbow. Just a matter of time -- you can't rush Pynchon.
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 | Nothing but Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 Can't even remember where I heard this one recommended, fell into like instantly.
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 | Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.46 Pablo Neruda, period. If you don't know, now ya know.
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 | The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.87 Still working on this one... guy at the bookstore said if I liked Kingsolver, I'd love this one. Yea, not so much but it's still a good read.
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 | Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action by J. Matthew Sleeth M.D.
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.98 Great points of view, whether you are a Christian or not... he spells it out without being pretentious.
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.92 Good for fall/winter reading. Hot cup of tea & bourbon, read, repeat...
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 | The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $14.00 Favorite all-time read. I can finish this one off in a weekend... such unbelievable flow.
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 | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: $5.87 Yea, I did a book report on this like five years straight in school. Finally sat down and read it like five years later, good story.
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 | Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $1.88 Still working on this one, good travel work.
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 | In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.55 Great work by Bryson, his 'Walk In The Woods' was less than adequate but he saved himself in my eyes with this.
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 | Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.01 Amazing storyteller -- words flow like wine.
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 | Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Vonnegut is a master wordsmith.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy used from: $12.92 Parts are still confusing but overall, great read.
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 | Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road by Donald Miller
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.95 Great story... finished it and wanted more.
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 | Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.06 I'm marrying a red-head. But she isn't an outlaw, I know of...
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 | The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.43 Kentucky, represent.
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 | Last Samurai, The by Helen De Witt
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.39 Not the story from the movie with what's his name...
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 | Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Peter Matthiessen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.54 Friend let me know about this one, he was right. Vivid and brilliant.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
Buy used from: $1.79 Heard good things, one of my next books in the pile.
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 | Superfudge by Judy Blume
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.60 Yea.. so what?
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 | The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satirist by Mark Twain
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $4.46 I had a professor of banned books, he suggested this as extra reading... good call.
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 | Ham on Rye: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $6.50 My first roll with Bukowski many years ago was with this book... expert craftsman. So easy a third grader could read, but hopefully they won't.
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 | The Revenge of the Baby-Sat by Bill Watterson
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $0.01 First Calvin & Hobbes, fourth grade. Own and love them all!
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 | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.93 Everybody needs that one book on their list that everybody and their momma has read.. this is mine.
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 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.38 I was torn between which I liked better, this or the movie. This one wins out, I believe.
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.60 Freshman year, honors english class. Decided on this for my summer read... *note to self* look at the number of pages next time, dummy. I was but a wee freshman. I had seen some of the cartoons and thought it would be cake, umm yea.
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $7.79 Say what you will but I enjoyed this so much better than 'On the Road'.
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 | Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.99 I'm sure most would say this probably isn't as good as that one book about the movie with that guy from Easy Rider who gets beat to death but still pretty good, at least I liked it better.
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.17 Yea, I supposedly read this several times for book reports. I doubt I'll ever read it but its a good place to end a book list.. so, yea..
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