Essays One
By: Lydia Davis
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Best known for her short stories and translations, Davis's also writes nonfiction. In Essays I, Dav…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time."-Lydia Davis, Essays One
"Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time."-Lydia Davis, Essays One
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1. Exercises in Style
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger … read more
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"C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron"-Barbara Wright, Exercises in Style
2. Vertigo
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more
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- literature
"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
3. Where I Was From
By: Joan Didion
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her hist… read more
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- american
- memoir
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- 21st century
"There is no real way to deal with everything we lose."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
"Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can."-Joan Didion, Where I Was From
4. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- 21st century
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
5. 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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"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
6. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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- literature
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
7. Two Serious Ladies
By: Jane Bowles
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more
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- american
8. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- literature
9. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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- literature
- american
10. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- literature
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11. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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12. Poems 1962-2012
By: Louise Glück
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Even when collected, Louise Gluck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive … read more
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13. Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
By: Larissa MacFarquhar
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How far do you really go to "do unto others"? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the… read more
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14. O amor dos homens avulsos
By: Victor Heringer
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
No calor de um suburbio carioca, um garoto cresce em meio a partidas de futebol, conversas sobre te… read more
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15. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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- american
16. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more
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17. Of Wolves and Men
By: Barry Lopez
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and … read more
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18. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
19. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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20. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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21. Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the … read more
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22. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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23. Sixty Stories
By: Donald Barthelme
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our t… read more
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24. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
By: Mary Ruefle
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know… read more
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25. 10:04
By: Ben Lerner
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more
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26. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
27. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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28. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
29. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
30. Essays One
By: Lydia Davis
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Best known for her short stories and translations, Davis's also writes nonfiction. In Essays I, Dav… read more
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"Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time."-Lydia Davis, Essays One
31. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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