Crompton Divided
By: Robert Sheckley
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
He is a tortured soul. Separated at an early age from two conflicting personalities, Alistair Cromp…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- humor
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
3. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
4. Ship of Fools
By: Richard Paul Russo
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy fo… read more
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- science fiction
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5. Crompton Divided
By: Robert Sheckley
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
He is a tortured soul. Separated at an early age from two conflicting personalities, Alistair Cromp… read more
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- humor
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
6. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
7. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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- fiction
8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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- fiction
"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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- fantasy
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10. The Man Who Fell to Earth
By: Walter Tevis
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more
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11. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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12. Summertide (Heritage Universe, #1)
By: Charles Sheffield
3.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest … read more
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13. This Immortal
By: Roger Zelazny
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Comm… read more
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14. Return From the Stars
By: Stanisław Lem , Barbara Marszal
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have p… read more
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15. Amnesia Moon
By: Jonathan Lethem
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie th… read more
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16. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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17. Mission of Gravity
By: Hal Clement
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Ed Emshwiller Mission of Gravityis an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on… read more
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18. The Invisibility Cloak (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Ge Fei , None
3.24
Format: 324 pages,
An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where e… read more
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19. Shuna's Journey
By: Hayao Miyazaki
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a go… read more
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- fiction
20. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
21. More Better Deals
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.77
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
Edgar award-winning author Joe Lansdale returns with the hard-boiled story of a no-nonsense used ca… read more
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