Threshold
By: Rob Doyle
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibi…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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- novels
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- contemporary
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
3. Last Evenings on Earth
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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- novels
- fiction
5. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- novels
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
6. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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- novels
- fiction
7. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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8. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
9. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
By: Harry Crews , Michael McCurdy
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A Childhoodis the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrai… read more
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10. Lonesome Traveler
By: Jack Kerouac
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose … read more
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11. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
12. Autoportrait
By: Édouard Levé , Lorin Stein
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting … read more
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13. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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14. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
15. The Unvanquished
By: William Faulkner
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartori… read more
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16. New Millennium Boyz
By: Alex Kazemi
3.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighborhood until two new friends d… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
17. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- irish literature
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
18. Threshold
By: Rob Doyle
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibi… read more
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19. Lazy City
By: Rachel Connolly
3.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, a… read more
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20. The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
By: Róisín Kiberd
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
'Unsettling, illuminating, and perversely fun - by a writer of extraordinary style and intellectual… read more
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21. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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