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Obscure, Odd, and Offbeat: Some Great Reads From Under the Literary Radar

An English teacher's idiosyncratic list of great reads that you may not be aware of. Some are works from established authors that never found an audience, some are genre pieces deserving of a wider audience, some are bestsellers from years past that have fallen into obscurity, and some are just undiscovered treasures. How many do you know?
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The Hungry Moon (Ramsey Campbell)
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The Satan Bug (Alisrair MacLean)
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The Spire (William Golding)
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And Save Them for Pallbearers (James Garrett)
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Angry Candy (Harlan Ellison)
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The Apothecary Rose (Candice Robb)
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Assignment in Brittany (Macinnes)
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Audrey's Door
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Banner in the Sky (James Ullman)
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Beach Red (Peter Bowman)
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The Beardless Warriors (Richard Matheson)
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Bid Time Return
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The Blue Max (Jack D. Hunter)
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Book of Joe
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Burnt Offerings
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The Captain From Connecticut (C. S. Forester)
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The Conquerors (Costain)
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Convention (Bailey and Knebel)
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Crazy in Berlin (Thomas Berger)
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The Dance of Genghis Cohn (Romain Gary)
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Dead in the Water
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The Devil's Work (John Brunner)
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The Dice of God (Hoffman Birney)
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The Dirty Dozen (E. M. Nathanson)
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The Doctor Is Sick (Anthony Burgess)
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Dying Inside (Robert Silverberg)
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The Egyptian (Mika Waltari)
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Executive Suite
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Fate Is the Hunter (Ernest Gann)
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George Ade (Shepherd)
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Ghost Radio (Gout)
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The Gladiators (Koestler)
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Glimmering (Elizabeth Hand)
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The Greek Passion
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Harm's Way (Bassett)
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Hate List (Jennifer Brown)
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Hell House
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The a High and the Mighty (Ernest K. Gann)
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The Horse Soldiers (Harold Sinclair)
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The Howling Man (Charles Beaumont)
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I Wake Up Screaming (Steve Fisher)
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In the Bleak Midwinter (Julia Spencer-Fleming)
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Lady Audley's Secret (Mary Elisabeth Braddon)
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The Last Englishman (Hebe Weenolsen)
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The Last Hurrah (Edwin O'Connor)
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Last Stop Camp 7 (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
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Life as We Knew It (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
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The Listeners (James Gunn)
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The Long Ships (Frans Bengtsson)
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Love and Other Disasters (Millington)
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THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT (SLOAN WILSON)
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Marooned (Martin Caidin)
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The Mask of Apollo (Mary Rennault)
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Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Alice-Kate Schulman)
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The Missing Person (Brian Tobin)
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Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (1954)
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Mutiny (Frank Tilsey)
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Night of Camp David (Fletcher Knebel)
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The Night She Disappeared (April Henry)
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Nightfall (David Goodis)
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Northwest Passage (Kenneth Roberts)
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The Officer Factory (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
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Pendulum (John Christopher)
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Phases of Gravity (Simmons)
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Planet of Exile (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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Plays and Petersburg Tales (Nikolai Gogol)
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The Possessors (John Christopher)
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QB VII
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Quicksand (John Brunner)
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Rendezvous in Black
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The Revolt of Gunner Asch (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
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Ride the Pink Horse (Hughes)
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Road Trip Dialogues (Jass Richards)
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The Robe (Lloyd Douglas)
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Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Leguin
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The Schirmer Inheritance (Eric Ambler)
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The Searchers (Alan Lemay)
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Skipped Parts (Sandlin)
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Social Blunders (Tim Sandlin)
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Sorrow Floats (Sandlin)
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Spartacus (Howard Fast)
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The Squares of the City (John Brunner)
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Sword at Sunset (Rosemary Sutcliffe)
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Tales of the White Hart (Arthur C. Clarke)
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Tomorrow (Philip Wylie)
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Track of the Cat (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
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Tremor of Intent (Anthony Burgess)
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Unforgiven (Alan Lemay)
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The Uninvited (Dorothy McCardle)
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Unknown Man No. 89
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The Vikings (Edison Marshall)
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Waking the Moon (Elizabeth Hand)
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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (Jean Shepherd)
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We Speak No Treason (Rosemary Hawley Jarman)
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The White Tower (James Ramsay Ullman)
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Winter (Len Deighton)
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Winter Kills (Condon)
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The Wolves (Hans Hellmut Kirst)
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The World in Winter (John Christopher)
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Yellow Hair (Clay Fisher)
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