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…
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1. Trout Fishing in America
By: Richard Brautigan
3.76
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
2. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Ray
By: Barry Hannah
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous … read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
5. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
6. Tenth of December
By: George Saunders
3.98
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
7. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
9. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- american
- short stories
10. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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11. Airships
By: Barry Hannah
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gin… read more
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12. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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13. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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14. Facing the Music
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Facing the Music, Larry Brown's first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical accla… read more
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15. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- 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
16. The Pugilist at Rest
By: Thom Jones
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeare… read more
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17. Cathedral
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more
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18. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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19. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
20. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
21. 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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- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"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)
