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WatchmenWatchmen by Alan Moore
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I never stopped thinking about it since Ive read it.
My Life and Hard Times (Prion Humour Classics)My Life and Hard Times (Prion Humour Classics) by James Thurber
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'The Night the Bed Fell' is the single funniest thing I've ever read.
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Dr Seuss Green Back Books)Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Dr Seuss Green Back Books) by Dr. Seuss
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Frank and honest. Better, more enjoyable (and I bet cheeper) than self help books or therapy
Motherless BrooklynMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
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An amazing use of language
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics)Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Chapter three has an amazing passage where Dr. Frankenstein describes death
Hamlet (Penguin Popular Classics)Hamlet (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Selected PoemsSelected Poems by M Sarton
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Medea and Other Plays: "Medea","Hecabe","Electra","Heracles" (Penguin Classics)Medea and Other Plays: "Medea","Hecabe","Electra","Heracles" (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
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Delightfully disgusting and grotesque language is used in the messenger speeches. Makes an impression.
Complete Tales and Poems (Modern Library) (Modern Library)Complete Tales and Poems (Modern Library) (Modern Library) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Instant Lives & MoreInstant Lives & More by E Gorey
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Notes from a Big CountryNotes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
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On the Road (Penguin Classics)On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
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The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics)The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
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Simple but memorable
The Glass Menagerie (Penguin plays & screenplays)The Glass Menagerie (Penguin plays & screenplays) by Tennessee Williams
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A "Clockwork Orange": Play with Music (Methuen Modern Plays): Play with Music (Modern Plays)A "Clockwork Orange": Play with Music (Methuen Modern Plays): Play with Music (Modern Plays) by Anthony Burgess
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Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman (Penguin Press Science)Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman (Penguin Press Science) by Martin Gardner
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Good pre-teen/kid read (or adults with kids inside...)
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and other prose writingsJohnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and other prose writings by Sylvia Plath
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The story 'America' is good
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
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Nobody's Perfect: The Reviews of Anthony Lane EsquireNobody's Perfect: The Reviews of Anthony Lane Esquire by Anthony Lane
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Latin for All OccasionsLatin for All Occasions by Henry Beard
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Funny even if you don't give a hoot about latin. Everyone needs to know how to say 'this is just a ballpark figure' in it
The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics)The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
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Now We are Six (Winnie the Pooh Colour P/Backs)Now We are Six (Winnie the Pooh Colour P/Backs) by A.A. Milne
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ken Kesey
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To Kill a Mocking BirdTo Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
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Penguin Great Ideas : A Room of One's OwnPenguin Great Ideas : A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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