 | War and Peace (Vintage Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.72 My absolute favorite book! I know it is long, but is so worth the effort. It's a new awesome translation and just came out in paperback!
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.99 Beautiful and sad, be sure to get this translation.
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 | The Age of Innocence (Everyman's Library) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $4.69 Pulitzer Prize Winner and ahh, so amazing.
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 | The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $4.95 Pulitzer Prize Winner as well.
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.50 Read it a couple of times to fully appreciate Nabokov's exquisite literary style and sense of humor.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $0.76 Pulitzer Prize Winner and beautifully written.
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $0.01 Jeffrey Eugenides is my hero, I wish he would write some more books.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy used from: $5.72 Sylvia's only novel.
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 | Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: $16.73 / Used from: $13.99 |
 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy used from: $0.01 Awesome.
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 | The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.49 Very arresting book and exceptionally written.
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 | Atlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $7.33 |
 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.49 |
 | Memoirs of a Geisha - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Arthur Golden
Buy used from: $2.00 |
 | Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.32 |
 | Villette (Modern Library Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.42 |
 | Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) by J.K. Rowling
Buy used from: $45.06 Obviously.
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy: "Northern Lights", "Subtle Knife", "Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $25.10 / Used from: $11.39 My obsession. I just want everyone in the world to read these. Each books gets better than the last and by the end you're glued to the book, so involved in the story that you cannot put it down.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $15.83 / Used from: $0.19 I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can the take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it.
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 | Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.44 Sylvia Plath's "modern day Bell Jar" if you will.
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 | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 A surprisingly touching and very informative memoir. Very well written.
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 | White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) by Janet Fitch
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.99 A memoir that we can all relate to. Some thought it was too pretentious, but I appreciated his witty sense of humor.
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 | Naked by David Sedaris
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.79 Oh, I just love Mr. Sedaris. His stories are highly entertaining anytime, anywhere.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.85 |
 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.34 A classical that ALL Russians have read. A satirical look at Soviet Russia in the 20's. Highly amusing and creative. This translation is the best.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.30 |
 | The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy used from: $0.01 This will take you into a whole new world that you were just not prepared for but you will be entertained and surprised every step of the way.
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 | The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.44 A surprisingly excellent writer.
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