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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleAn obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Player Piano by Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom RobbinsSwitters, an anarchist pacifist who works for the government and carries a gun, chases after his teenage stepsister, only to become madly enamored of a nun a decade older than him, in this hilarious new novel by the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
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About a Boy by Nick HornbyWill trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman who is also a single mother.
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutA young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
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Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo MorganA fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around.
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To Have and Have Not by Ernest HemingwaySet in the 1930s, tells the tragic story of a rum-smuggler named Harry Morgan.
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Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe tragic story of the friendship between two migrant workers, George and mentally retarded Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm.
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