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1	Kite Runner more books like this by Khaled Hosseini This epic novel is set in Afghanistan, beginning in the days of the monarchy and reaching to the early 21st century. Amir is the son of a wealthy man; his best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Growing up in Kabul, the two share an idyllic childhood until a traumatic event--and Amir's act of cowardly betrayal--changes the nature ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $5.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Road more books like this by Cormac McCarthy A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with "the ashes of the late world." The man can still remember the time before. The boy knows only this time. There is nothing for them but survival- they are "each other's world entire"- and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $6.45! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Great Gatsby more books like this by F Scott Fitzgerald When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure--a phenomenon the high ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Thousand Splendid Suns more books like this by Khaled Hosseini Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made "The Kite Runner" a classic, Hosseinis latest novel is at once an incredible chronicle of 30 years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation found in love. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $11.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Water for Elephants more books like this by Sara Gruen An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of "Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $8.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time more books like this by Mark Haddon Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Atonement more books like this by Ian McEwan ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided into three sections, reaching from the first chapter, set in 1935, to a startling coda in the early 2000s. In between is wartime Europe and a group of nurses tending to wounded soldiers; this section also describes the aftermath of the battle of Dunkirk, in which McEwan's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	One Hundred Years of Solitude more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez A beguiling mix of politics, magic, romance, and sex, the saga of the mysterious history of the Buendia family of the village of Macondo does nothing less than recapitulate the entire history of the human race. Written with little regard for traditional novelistic conventions, Garcia Marquez's novel incorporates emotional responses in lieu of plot ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Atlas Shrugged more books like this by Ayn Rand Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $5.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Handmaid's Tale more books like this by Margaret Atwood In this futuristic fantasy, the Republic of Gilead--formerly the United States--is a fundamentalist regime that has reduced women to a state of servitude and suppressed all civil rights. The protagonist, a woman called Offred, becomes the Handmaid of the Commander, expected to bear him a child in exchange for her freedom. Old enough to remember ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Pride & Prejudice more books like this by Jane Austen It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	My Sister's Keeper more books like this by Jodi Picoult Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is. see all copies from $2.25! new only from $4.94! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Jonathan Livingston Seagull more books like this by Richard Bach This best-selling allegory about the life of an iconoclastic seagull was made into a 1973 film with a soundtrack by Neil Diamond. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Shadow of the Wind more books like this by Carlos Ruiz Zafon This best-selling Spanish novel (translated into English by Lucia Graves) begins with a young boy named Daniel, who discovers a strange, forgotten novel in a bookstore: it's called THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, and the rumor is that its author is being plagued by a man who is trying to track down copies of the book so he can destroy them. As the story ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Suite Francaise more books like this by Irene Nemirovsky, Dr. Sandra Smith (Translator) An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, "Suite Fran aise" is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $5.90! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	No Country for Old Men more books like this by Cormac McCarthy In Cormac McCarthy's ninth novel, his first in seven years, Llewellyn Moss, a hunter in McCarthy's Texas border country, happens upon $2 million in cash and a small fortune in heroin (as well as a heap of dead bodies), takes the money and drugs, and goes into hiding. This sets in motion a chain of events revolving around Sheriff Bell, the book's ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lovely Bones more books like this by Alice Sebold From the author of the stunning memoir, "Lucky, " comes a fiction debut narrated from heaven. Starting with the first chapter, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder and watches her family as they cope with their grief. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Memoirs of a Geisha more books like this by Arthur Golden In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of a kindly mentor and despite the malice of a rival; and of how Sayuri struggled to balance ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Good in Bed more books like this by Jennifer Weiner A woman named Cannie Shapiro is (like the author) a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Life is good until her ex-husband starts writing his own column, for a hip magazine, called "Good in Bed," in which he details the intimate truths of their relationship, including his opinion of her plus-size body. Finally determined to lose some weight, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Wuthering Heights more books like this by Emily Bronte Drawing on the Gothic tradition, Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the tale of Catherine Earnshaw, a wilfull and romantic girl brought up to be a lady, and Heathcliff, the mysterious gypsy orphan. Bronte's use of a series of unreliable narrators to unfold their story heightens the mythic quality of the passionate attachment that is at the heart ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Great expectations more books like this by Charles Dickens The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Secret Life of Bees more books like this by Sue Monk Kidd Lily Owens is growing up in South Carolina in the mid-1960s, raised by her cruel father but cared for by Rosaleen, her African-American nanny. When Rosaleen tries to vote and is beaten for her trouble, she and Lily head for the town of Tiburon, a place with ties to Lily's dead mother, where they live with a local beekeeper, and where Lily learns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Thirteenth Tale more books like this by Diane Setterfield Amateur biographer Margaret Lea receives a letter from reclusive author Vida Winter, summoning her to write Vida's life story. Up to this point, Vida has never given a true account of her life, toying with interviewers by inventing lutlandish life histories of herself. In her old age, she at last wants to tell the truth a bout her extraordinary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Grapes of wrath more books like this by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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