 | Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 let roth's phrases take you hither and thither on this mad ride through an old and dirty man's journey into insanity. full of sex and mischief, full of humanity and written with vitality and energy.
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 | Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.55 lo-lee-ta. read the first five pages and tell me you're not into it. nabokov, native russian, writes english like no other. begins with a beautiful story of lost pre-adolescent love, goes on a long romp of hilarious and uncomfortable hijinks with H. H., and then unwinds in a beautifully touching final act.
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 | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 tolstoy gets every character, at every movement of their lives, perfectly right. he understands people's actions and thoughts so thoroughly that you think "of course!" take austen's high class comedy combined with chekhov's deeply felt humanity and you've got tolstoy
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 | Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $15.48 / Used from: $8.99 reads like nothing else i've read. the descriptions of the landscape and of the violence are equally enthralling and awe-inspiring. by the end it reaches mythical heights.
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 | Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Buy used from: $25.00 brief tale told with the most meticulous use of words and phrases. very evocative, almost soothing in its (ahem) grace and fluidity. surprising and thought-provoking.
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 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.61 |
 | Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $4.28 |
 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.64 |
 | Sweet Hereafter: A Novel by Russell Banks
Buy used from: $0.99 |
 | Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joseph O'Neill
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.45 |
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