 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.32 Best dialog of any American novel, bar none. People on the subway will eyeball you when you laugh out loud while reading this book.
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 | Fathers and Sons (Modern Library Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $4.69 You'll cry even when the misanthropic nihilist gets his comeuppance.
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 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.86 Spellbinding.
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 | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $7.01 Page-turning potboiler, psychological study, world-class literature all rolled into a single book
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.63 No trip to a deserted island would be complete without this book. As captivating to a world-weary, misanthropic curmudgeon as it is to a wide-eyed child. I should know. I've been both.
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 | J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $6.00 It will be Tolkien, not James Joyce who will still be read a hundred years from now.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $12.99 It will be Lewis, not James Joyce who will still be read a hundred years from now.
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 | Nathanael West : Novels and Other Writings : The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters (Library of America) by Nathanael West
Buy used from: $15.00 Why do I read The Day of the Locust once a year, but not The Great Gatsby?
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 | Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.94 O'Connor's writing penetrates right to the inmost heart.
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 | P.G. Wodehouse : Five Complete Novels (The Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, The Old Reliable) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $7.43 PG Wodehouse is a tonic for the 20th (and now the 21st) Century.
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 | Life with Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Compendium) by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $3.97 Find out who wins the Great Sermon Handicap.
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 | The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $4.74 Reading it is the equivalent of 100 religious retreats.
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 | The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $0.40 A storyteller's storyteller.
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.94 These stories get better with every reading.
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 | John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.49 Astonishing.
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 | The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $9.69 Each poem is like a pebble in a clear and bubbling stream.
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| Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Chatham River Press Classics) by Emily Dickinson
Buy used from: $3.00 She's created a book of words made flesh.
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 | Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.89 Not for children.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: $0.48 |
 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic) by Sherwood Anderson
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.81 |
 | Robert Herrick Eman Poet Lib #12 (Everyman Poetry)
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.94 |
 | Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: $2.77 |
 | The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics) by Henry James
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Never Say Murder by Geoffrey Walters
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $5.00 Undiscovered talent.
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