 | Ulysses by James Joyce
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.16 I'll read this if it kills me. And it might.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 And if the former doesn't, this one may finish the job.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.49 Countless recommendations
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 | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 It strikes me as pretentious, but I'm curious
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 | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.54 I feel like I need to catch up with the rest of the world
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $0.01 I'm one of the few people I know who actually liked "Farewell to Arms"...
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 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Buy used from: $0.01 His poetry is brilliant, as is the little prose I've read. I feel like this will be great.
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 | The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $0.01 Plath was a lousy human but an excellent writer. Can't win 'em all, I guess.
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 | Walden (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $2.74 Walden and Civil Disobedience have eluded me for 20 years. I swear, I'll read them eventually.
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 | Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Oh, Walt.
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 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $2.04 Everybody and their mom has read and sworn by this damn book, so I have high expectations.
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 | Talking Trees by Sean O'Faolain
Buy used from: $3.45 His short story "The Talking Trees" made me laugh out loud, and I'm dying to read more of his work.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.01 I stumbled across this and I'm pretty intrigued.
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 | The Little Prince
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.67 Hmm.
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 | Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I know hero-worship is dangerous, but Salinger is a literary god among men.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 I adored the abridged version when I read it in third grade, and loathed the original in ninth grade. So I want to reread it and see what happens.
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 | The Call of the Wild (Tor Classics) by Jack London
Buy new: $2.99 / Used from: $0.01 Like "Great Expectations," I loved the abridged version as a kid, so now I want to read the real thing.
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 | Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Ditto.
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 | Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.15 Because it is Dostoevsky.
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 | Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $0.01 Pirates arrrr great.
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $1.37 I know this seems ambitious...
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 | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Buy used from: $13.44 ...but it's child's play compared to this puppy.
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 | Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 A light read.
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 | Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 I started reading this in high school and never got to finish it (something came up, I don't remember what)
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 | Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey (Footsteps (San Francisco, Calif.).) by Laurie Gough
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.94 Sounds like an inspiring nutjob.
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