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The Plague by Albert Camus Staff Pick The Algerian city of Oran is set upon by plague and sealed off from the rest of the world, its citizens imprisoned not only with the disease but also with each other. Or are they? By the novel's end, every character is profoundly changed by the... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Mass Market 
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Crime and Punishment (91 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Staff Pick Siri Hustvedt is one of the best writers that you've probably never heard of, and What I Loved is an extraordinary novel. Hustvedt's writing is agile and revelatory: now breathless, now cool, it's a story wound around the hollows left by love and memory.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) by T S Eliot Staff Pick Many things happen in "The Waste Land"; a woman tends her hair — it may well be her last mystery — so that it does (like grass left unmolested, perhaps) sing; chess is played in the closest of circumstances... wait, does any of that make sense?... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien Staff Pick During the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien spent a year in the U.S. infantry. As a result, he wrote If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), an account of his experiences there. He doesn't spare us the terrible particulars of this piece of our... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya Staff Pick Senselessness is the first of Castellanos Moya's novels to be translated into English, and though short, it manages to cast a wide net that demands as much from the reader as it does from its central character. In an unnamed Latin American country that... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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In the Wake by Per Petterson Staff Pick In the Wake is the first novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson to appear in the U.S., but hopefully not the last. It is the story of Arvid, an alcoholic not-quite-former writer struggling with the sudden death of most of his family. Arvid's memories... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek Staff Pick Though long a respected (and controversial) figure on the international literary stage, it was not until she won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature that Elfriede Jelinek became well known on this side of the Atlantic. The Piano Teacher is her most famous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey Staff Pick Here's the cure for the otaku blues! In his latest work, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey recounts his anime- and manga-inspired trip to Japan with his son, Charley. Throughout the book we tag along with Carey as he navigates not only Japanese... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano Staff Pick A decidedly Mexican novel that spans the entire globe, The Savage Detectives is Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Borges's Ficciones all rolled into one — and somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts in the process. Beautifully... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Victoria (Penguin Classics) by Knut Hamsun Staff Pick Knut Hamsun was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who, because of his Nazi sympathies during WWII, was almost completely wiped from the literary landscape. Fortunately for us (but this is still being debated!) many of his works are now... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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