 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Just an amazing read! I have given it to many people and they all loved it.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $0.01 One of the best written books ever. The interludes are worth the effort by themselves.
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 | The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
Buy used from: $0.01 The ending is heart wrenching..another truly great book.
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 | True Crime: The Novel by Andrew Klavan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Probably the best page turner I have ever read...the movie was silly and not worth the time
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 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is just an amazing book!!!!!
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.99 I laughed so hard at certain points of this book that I had to stop reading so that my stomach would stop hurting. This is a hysterical book.
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 | Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency by Al Franken
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $0.01 The beginning and the end are good but the middle part is GREAT! The middle is as funny as anything I have ever read!
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 | Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 You have probably never heard of this one but there is a scene that was so powerful that I was literally shaking as I read it....
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 | From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.23 A very rough book that contains some of the best characters and best writing I have ever seen. The scene where Prewitt plays "Taps" should be read by every musician!
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 | Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.69 This memoir left me speechless. Immaculee's story of survival and faith will stay with me forever!
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 | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, "I would love to meet that author"??? That is exactly what I thought to myself after reading this book. Wonderful...
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 | I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story by Hank Aaron
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.75 Just a great book written by and about one of America's greatest and classiest athletes ever!!!!!!
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 | Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.69 This book touched me in a very personal way.
Not everyone might be able to relate to her story but in many ways I was.
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 | Anna Karenina (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.82 This book is not easy to get through, but the effort is worthwhile. Tolstoy succeeds on many levels with this novel.
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 | Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $16.30 A true epic! Wonderful writing, wonderful characters.
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 | Hiroshima by John Hersey
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 Everyone should read this book. Hersey went and found eyewitness survivors of the first atomic bomb. No matter where you stand on the issue of America dropping the bomb this book is a must read. A very sober but meaningful read!
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 | Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This book was another sobering read! But incredibly gripping. I know nothing about being in the army or soldiering but I couldn't help but be impressed with how the American Rangers and other soldiers carried themselves!
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 | The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $9.75 This is just a great book by C.S. Lewis!
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 | Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.09 SOOOOOOOO much better than any of the movies!
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 | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $2.82 WOW!
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 | Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.96 This book is amazing! It is as if David Sedaris was writing about Christian Spirituality! It is funny and thought provoking!
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