The Imitation of the Rose
By: Clarice Lispector
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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1. Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Anchor Literary Library)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.03
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
2. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
3. Sleepless Nights
By: Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick
3.74
Format: 410 pages,
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life--the parade of people, the shifting background o… read more
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- classics
- fiction
Similar categories in Elizabeth Smart's The Assumption of Rogues and Rascals book and Clarice Lispector's The Imitation of the Rose
- fiction
5. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)
By: Anaïs Nin
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and Junespans a single year in Nin… read more
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- classics
6. The Paris Review Interviews, I: 1
By: Ernest Hemingway , T.S. Eliot , Jorge Luis Borges , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Truman Capote , Elizabeth Bishop , Dorothy Parker , Saul Bellow , Rebecca West , Joan Didion , Robert Gottlieb , James M. Cain , Philip Gourevitch , Richard Price , Robert Stone , The Paris Review , Billy Wilder , Jack Gilbert
3.36
Format: None pages,
How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is li… read more
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7. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
8. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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9. Street Haunting
By: Virginia Woolf
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and / or essays, extracted from The Crowded Dance of Modern Life(1993) and Select… read more
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10. The Doll's Alphabet
By: Camilla Grudova
3.60
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the… read more
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11. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
12. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- fiction
13. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- fiction
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
14. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
15. Misunderstanding in Moscow
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.71
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Rus… read more
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- classics
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"I could have been someone else, but then it would be someone else questioning herself about her self."-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Sim, ela vai esquecer a igreja branca e dourada como tinha esquecido tantas outras. Aquela curiosidade que havia mantido quase intacta lhe parecia com frequência como uma sobrevivência obstinada: mas…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
16. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
17. Big Blonde
By: Dorothy Parker
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world… read more
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- classics
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18. Three Summers
By: Margarita Liberaki
3.76
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countrys… read more
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- fiction
"Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord."-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood."-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"It was during those moments that he realized that he experienced true happiness. Whereas big events - like when he graduated or got married to Maria or learned he would be a father - brought worries …"-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
"I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone as…"-Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers
19. The Imitation of the Rose
By: Clarice Lispector
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from … read more
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- female authors
20. Babette's Feast
By: Isak Dinesen
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world'… read more
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