Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
By: Paul Auster
3.97
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted an…
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1. Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
By: Julio Cortázar , Carles Álvarez Garriga
4.47
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Berkeley, California, otoño de 1980. En la cima de su carrera y después de años de negativas, Julio… read more
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"Nuestros libros son botellas al mar, mensajes lanzados en la inmensidad de la ignorancia y la miseria; pero ocurre que ciertas botellas terminan por llegar a destino, y es entonces que esos mensajes …"-Julio Cortázar, Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
"If a book wants to question and doubt many things that are taken for granted or codified, how can the writer manage to do that, to put all those things in doubt? Apparently he has to write, his only …"-Julio Cortázar, Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
2. The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.03
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellr… read more
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- american
- audiobook
3. Canada
By: Richard Ford
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened l… read more
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- literature
4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- literature
5. Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more
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- literature
- american
6. Sartoris
By: William Faulkner
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civ… read more
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- literature
- american
7. Solo Faces
By: James Salter
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves agai… read more
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8. Tree of Smoke
By: Denis Johnson
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet Ame… read more
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10. The Outfit (Parker, #3)
By: Richard Stark
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more
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11. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
By: Richard Stark
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
13. The Hunter (Parker, #1)
By: Richard Stark
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more
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14. The Mourner (Parker, #4)
By: Richard Stark
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more
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"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)
15. To the End of the Land
By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen
4.01
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—… read more
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- literature
- unfinished
"A soldier who looked as if he were around fifteen, with soft, smooth cheeks, lay next to Ilan with his eyes closed, curled up and mumbling quickly, devotedly. Ilan touched his leg and asked him to sa…"-David Grossman, To the End of the Land
16. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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17. This Sweet Sickness
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith, in her own inimitable fashion, has created a complex ps… read more
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18. The Score (Parker, #5)
By: Richard Stark
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more
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19. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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20. Finnegans Wake
By: James Joyce
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more
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21. The Fortress of Solitude
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins … read more
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22. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- audiobook
23. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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- american
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
24. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- history
- audiobook
25. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
26. Widespread Panic
By: James Ellroy
3.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood un… read more
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27. Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
By: Paul Auster
3.97
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted an… read more
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28. Nu mai e nimeni acasă
By: Sabina Yamamoto
3.94
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
„Greu de ucis”. Așa s-ar povesti subiectul acestei cărți, dac-ar fi să-l concentrez în trei cuvinte… read more
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29. Canavar
By: Stephen Crane
3.38
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
1898 yılında yayımlanan Canavar, Stephen Crane’in en bilinen novellalarından biridir. New York yakı… read more
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30. This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
By: Nate Schweber
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of Ameri… read more
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31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
