 | Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.75 A romantic, educated lament.
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 | No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $5.24 Our oldest soul at his modern best.
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 | The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.96 The perfect capitulation of our search for the right read.
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 | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Buy used from: $0.01 Opera, revolution, and romance - and I still liked it.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy used from: $0.01 A conflicted version of religious fervor spanning personalities, continents, and decades
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.59 In my opinion, our finest contemporary writer deals in poignance, wit, commentary, and despair.
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.98 The wonder and opulence of the world's fair, and the deceit and murder that always follow wonder and opulence
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 | Camp by Michael D. Eisner
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Easy and passable by most, but more sentiment than expected will arise in former campers
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 | A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 Botched suicide and its aftermath - British-style.
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.60 A memoir-like revelation of a singularly modern and profoundly dark secret. Excellent fiction.
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 | Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $7.16 Meticulous in his description of life, sagacious in his analysis of it. Pure Maxwell.
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 | The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Absolute in its conveyance of the wide sky of the west and all the beauty beneath it.
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 | Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.72 A surf novel that isn't. But what it is makes it beautiful.
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