Notable Books Ive Read

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Straight Man

by Richard Russo

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the …
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Post Office

by Charles Bukowski

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In …
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Factotum

 

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Ask the Dust

by John Fante

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young …
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Mohawk

by Richard Russo

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on …
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Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work …
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To Kill a Mockingbird 40th

by Harper Lee

The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a Black man accused …
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Run With the Hunted

by Charles Bukowski

The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes …
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The Art of Happiness

by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho

Drawing on more that 2,500 years of Buddhist tradition and teaching, the spiritual leader demonstrates how to confront the negative emotions, stresses, and obstacles of …
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The World According to Garp

by John Irving

Previously published: New York: Pocket Books, 1979.
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Letters to a young poet

 

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The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

A New Englander learns the bitter lesson that it is not possible to be a little dishonest
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Night

by Elie Wiesel

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
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