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What do these four books have in common? They are all the Kindle Deal of the day today. That means you can get these great books for only $1.99 each and spend the rest of Black Friday weekend curled up reading a classic.

Slaughter House FiveSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

from GoodReads: Slaughterhouse-Five is not only Vonnegut’s most powerful book, it is also as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author’s experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut’s other works, but the book’s basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy – and humor.

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

from GoodReads: In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

from GoodReads: Philip K. Dick’s searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson (Editor), Jonathan Lethem (Editor)

from GoodReads: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine.