 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Cover looks good. Liked the virgin suicides.
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 | The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £1.33 I love Signore Merisi da Caravaggio paintings. I´m curious wether I will learn interesting things about him in this book.
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 | Floating Opera / the End of the Road by John Barth
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.53 Several labelled as american post-modernism seem interesting to me. This author seems to be one of them.
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by TS Kuhn
Buy new: £7.05 / Used from: £4.44 One day, with patience, I will finally learn the origin of scientific paradigms.
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 | Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon: 1691-1709 v.1: 1691-1709 Vol 1 (Lost Treasures) by Duc De Saint-Simon
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £4.50 The memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, eight volumes, are the most faithfull recollection in situ of the Grand Siécle and Louis XIV.
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 | Conversations with Fellini (A Harvest original) by Costanzo Costantini
Buy used from: £2.19 Already on my bookshelf, its one of the greatest non-fiction books I will read.
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 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.95 Flamed up by the enormous interest Visconti had on the work of this gentleman, this is a must be for a very recent future.
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 | The Idiot (Signet classic) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.31 After crime and punishment, this will be probably the last Fiodór book i'll read . Still, don't want to miss this one.
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 | In Search of Lost Time: v. 3: The Guermantes Way: The Guermantes Way v. 3 (In Search of Lost Time 3) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £5.00 Reading this book will be great as it will mean that i've already finished those last hundred difficult pages on volume 2.
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 | Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (Penguin Modern Classics) by Marguerite Yourcenar
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £2.75 I confess I started it, but I will have to start it all over again. No harm done if before I learn a lot more about roman civilization.
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 | Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Coppola last film makes me want to read this a lot. I'm waiting for the dvd, to give it a kick start.
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 | The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.89 I guess this must go before Hadrian or Nietsche's The Birth of Tragedy (which i will be re-reading, hence not on this list)
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £1.98 Aparently it's very good on the subject of the Knights Templar.
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 | Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I have no idea.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.35 Mr Borges: gotta start somewhere, somehow, somewhen.
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 | Catherine de Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Mother of three French kings, slaughterer of huguenots, mother-in-law of the first french Bourbon king. This must be interesting.
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 | Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson
Buy new: £10.13 / Used from: £1.45 One must know everything about the author of something that reads like 'i hate what you say but i will die so you can say it'.
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 | The Ambassadors (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £17.50 The plot looks interesting - seems a fine way to get to know the author.
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 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel Cervantes
Buy new: £6.62 / Used from: £3.97 Even if I have a recent translation to Portuguese, I guess I'll have to read this one in spanish.
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £2.75 War, what is it good for... :D
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 | The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy used from: £5.00 Is this the beginning...?
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 | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.58 This is same crazy dwelling. I guess...
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 | Underworld by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £8.56 / Used from: £0.01 Just bought it. I bet its very Auster as everyone says (or the other way around). Still, i won't start it for a few months - lots of things to read in between....
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 | As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £2.49 Thats it? No more space? Where do I put the rest of the books I have yet to read? Grow this thing up sires!
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