Bad Foundations
By: Brian Allen Carr
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life …
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1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more
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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
2. Imperial Bedrooms
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.19
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more
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"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
3. The Mezzanine
By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more
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4. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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5. Witchita Stories
By: Troy James Weaver
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
The short vignette-style tales in Troy James Weaver's literary debut, Witchita Stories, combine to … read more
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6. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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7. I Remember
By: Joe Brainard
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through… read more
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8. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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10. Turtleface and Beyond: Stories
By: Arthur Bradford
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Darkly funny stories by the man David Sedaris calls "the… read more
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11. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
12. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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13. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
By: J. Ryan Stradal
4.01
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more
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"Young man"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
14. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
15. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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16. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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17. Bad Foundations
By: Brian Allen Carr
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life … read more
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18. Duplex
By: Mike Nagel
4.60
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more
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19. Culdesac
By: Mike Nagel
4.93
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Mike Nagel has no idea what’s going on around here. Fresh out of the duplex, he and J have rented a… read more
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20. The Red-Headed Pilgrim
By: Kevin Maloney
3.83
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
Provocative, poignant, and resoundingly hilarious, The Red-Headed Pilgrim is the tragicomic tale of… read more
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21. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
22. The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas
By: Sam Pink
4.38
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The basement was filthy. There was garbage all over. Any job I'd ever had involved garbage. I had b… read more
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23. Hobbies You Enjoy: A Novelty
By: Brian Alan Ellis
4.61
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Serving as a somewhat companion piece to such literary classics as Letters to Wendy’s, Jack Handey’… read more
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24. The Great State of West Florida
By: Kent Wascom
3.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Po… read more
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25. Give Unto Us
By: Justin Lutz
4.49
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
There's something about the river house that calls to Trevor Davis. Moving here will restore him, w… read more
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26. Scumbag Summer: A Novel
By: Jillian Luft
4.72
Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more
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27. You Are the Snake: Stories
By: Juliet Escoria
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated author of Juliet the Maniac comes a collection of previously unpublished storie… read more
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28. Gemini Rising
By: Justin Lutz
4.66
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
“The first tape arrives on a Thursday.” Crash Winslow is a journalist who finds himself pulling … read more
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29. Leasing
By: D.T. Robbins
4.87
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
David, like every other rock-bottom soul, runs out of options and ends up working at Victoria Lawn—… read more
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