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The Tommyknockers (Signet) by Stephen King
Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Thomas More
Leviathan by Paul Auster
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Secrets, A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
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posted by chearst at 4:48 am (EST) on May 24, 2008
Actually I recommend "Blood on the Forge" very highly. It is an amazing snapshot of life in the inner cities for black workers who migrated north during the early 20th century. It's grim, gritty, and you can feel the sweat and bile on your skin as you read it. It is a hard hitting novel, there is no letup, but you do get caught up in the lives of the Moss brothers. Really fantastic stuff and I'm amazed that it dropped off the map into obscurity. That's one of the things I like about NYRB Books, they just pluck these gems out of nowhere and bring them back into print.
Ken
posted by kwohlrob at 1:15 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2008
posted by kwohlrob at 8:09 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2008