 | Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. It's been a few years since I first read it and I still remember several lines from it.
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 | Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another really funny book. I like all of the books in the Shopaholic series, but this one is definitely the best.
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 | I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
Buy used from: $0.01 This book is remarkable. Because of this book I am constantly looking to see if Wally Lamb has another novel coming out. Sadly, he has not. Where are you, Wally?
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 | I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $4.23 This book is nuts and it's genius. I have never read another book like it and I have searched for similar and have come up with nothing. Amy Sedaris might be crazy but she's hilarious.
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 | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Laurie Notaro is my hero. This book made me laugh so hard I had to protect my eyeballs from popping out. Seriously. Her other books are good, too, but again I think her first one was her masterpiece.
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 | A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.06 I think I actually bought this book in part because I was intrigued by the little guy on a stick, but it turned out to be one of my favorite books of all time. This novel defines tragedy. I actually sobbed at the end.
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 | Good Grief: A Novel by Lolly Winston
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I don't have too much to say about this one except that it's very touching with a bit of humor and it is well written.
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 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.22 Who knew punctuation could be so funny? A must-read for anyone who loves the English language at its finest.
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 | Sea Glass: A Novel by Anita Shreve
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Anita Shreve is a fantastic writer. I have enjoyed several of her books, but I think this one is my favorite.
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 | The Story of Helen Keller (Signature Books series) by Lorena A Hickok
Buy used from: $5.50 I asked my mom to read this book to me when I was little because it had a nice picture on the front of a girl with a dog. (The picture of this book looks like she's petting a goat; I think the dog picture is better. If you buy this book, ask if it's the cover with the dog.) I had no idea it would introduce me to someone I admire a great deal.
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 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $1.92 Another one of my heroes. If you had to read this as a teenager and didn't like it for whatever reason, I encourage you to try reading it as an adult.
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 | Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.74 Another book that is just sad and tragic. And beautiful.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.55 When I was a kid, I read an interview with Kirk Cameron where he said his favorite book was "The Catcher in the Rye." It also said that he followed a Pritikin diet, so I thought this was about bread or something. Little did I know that years later I would find it to be one of my favorite novels of all time.
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 | Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.30 Augusten Burroughs's memoirs are hysterical. Skip "Running with Scissors" and read this or "Possible Side Effects."
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.10 I simply adore Mark Twain. The climax of this novel still gives me chills and/or brings a tear to my eye.
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.15 This book is amazing. Humbert Humbert is basically a monster but you end up feeling sorry for him. I did, anyway. Sad, scary, brilliant.
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.00 Guess what, kids? Some of the books they make you read in school really are good. Excellent, in fact. So much so that maybe one day you will buy it for your personal library and read it over and over.
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 | PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren
Buy new: $15.65 / Used from: $11.99 Reading through these post cards will run you through the gamut of emotions. It's also nice to know that others feel some of the same things you feel but thought you were crazy for feeling.
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