The 21st installment of Powells' Indiespensable subscription series features a signed first edition of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, the book that was recently at the center of a publishing "panic" when President Obama received an advance copy. Ebay will tell, but I'm guessing you could do worse than to drop $40 on a signed first edition of this one. Plus, the package comes with part one of Paul Murray's Skippy Dies—I'm about 40 pages in and very much enjoying it so far. The novel, which was long-listed for the Booker, is shaping up to be a dark, clever boarding school mystery, perhaps filed between Special Topics in Calamity Physics and A Confederacy of Dunces on the ol' bookshelf. (JK, my bookshelves are alphabatized by author.) And I'm halfway through the Franzen and it's pretty great so far too.