 | The Rum Diary : A Novel by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.98 no other writer is so true to life as Thompson; alcoholic binges and sexcapades. Read it,take some Asprin, and call me in the morning
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $4.50 we all try to find our way in life and like the main character sometimes we utterly fail
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 | The Postman (Bantam Classics) by David Brin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Anybody who judges this book by the movie should be shot. I can almost almost read the book by the time the movie ends
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 | Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
my favorite author and with good reason. His paranoia eats away at your skull.
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 | Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Buy used from: $0.01 Dark and gothic read about the forgotten mystisim of magic.
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 | Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.69 Heinlein is simply brilliant and so is this book
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 | Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.12 a great story about rich punks with white powdery noses
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 | Dracula (Signet Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy used from: $0.01 without this book Ann Rice would be writing children's books
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.44 child porn or unattainable love? A book so well written that it doesn't matter.
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 | The Stand (Modern Classics) by Stephen King
Buy used from: $2.66 written before his glory this is one long book. It proves that he can transcend his genre as well as still keep you involved.
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 | Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: $99.65 he is so brutal in his approach. I love the man.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.84 I know everybody else has this book on their list but so what. It's golden.
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 burning books is bad. It's references to communism is ever so apparent.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.74 we are all a bunch of machines. I once knew a few test tube babies
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 | Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works, Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll
Buy used from: $37.30 Lewis Carroll took LSD? It didn't exist in his era so rule that out but the children's classic is good for all ages.
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 | Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Poems (Library of Classic Poets) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy used from: $0.01 my favorite poet and will always be.
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 | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $36.95 it's in a world of its own as being the pinnacle of modern fiction. Nothing comes close.
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 | Lord of the Flies (Perigee) by William Golding
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 I read this book in high school and thought it was perfection. The dangers of mean little boys and modern ideas.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $38.92 one of the greatest American author's ever.
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 | We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 a very underrated classic in with the likes of Huxley and Orwell
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 | Dali: The Paintings (Midi) by Gilles Neret
Buy used from: $4.72 I know it's not a reading book but his paintings read like one. Every good person should visit one of his museums.
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