The Children of the Dead
By: Elfriede Jelinek
3.73
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek—a spectral journey through the catastrophic…
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1. 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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- literature
- novels
- 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
2. A Glastonbury Romance
By: John Cowper Powys
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulati… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
3. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
4. 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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- literature
- novels
- fiction
5. The Quick and the Dead
By: Joy Williams
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
7. Fever and Spear (Your Face Tomorrow, #1)
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display o… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
8. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- horror
9. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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10. The Names
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Namesis considered the book which began t… read more
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11. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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12. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
13. The Spoiled Heart
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more
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- contemporary
14. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
By: Mathias Énard
3.86
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"We all ape God in His absence."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
15. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
16. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- novels
- fiction
17. The Children of the Dead
By: Elfriede Jelinek
3.73
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek—a spectral journey through the catastrophic… read more
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- nobel prize
- literature
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- novels
18. American Abductions
By: Mauro Javier Cárdenas
3.86
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
After her father is abducted by immigration officials before her eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada… read more
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- fiction
19. Antagony (Spanish Literature)
By: Luis Goytisolo
3.52
Format: 1627 pages, Kindle Edition
Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Span… read more
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20. 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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- contemporary
"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
21. The Remembered Part (Trilogía las partes #3)
By: Rodrigo Fresán
4.42
Format: 760 pages, Paperback
The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the qu… read more
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