The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
By: Robertson Davies
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
"Who killed Boy Staunton?"This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant…
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1. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
2. The Crow Road
By: Iain Banks
4.08
Format: 501 pages, Paperback
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780349103235 'It was the day my grandmother explo… read more
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"I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ..."-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but …"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark surv…"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for…"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
3. Skinny Legs and All
By: Tom Robbins
4.06
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations... It sounds… read more
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"This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper."-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
"Kalbim bir üçüncü dünya ülkesi/Senin aşkınsa İsviçre'den gelmiş bir turist"-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
"My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich."-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
"Yedi cücelerin tek tıraş olanı Ahmak'tı. Bu bize, tıraş olmaktaki bilgelik hakkında bir fikir verebilir"-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
4. 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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5. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
By: Robertson Davies
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
"Who killed Boy Staunton?"This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant… read more
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6. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
7. Farther Away
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's Freedomwas the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching … read more
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8. Residence on Earth
By: Pablo Neruda , None , Donald D. Walsh
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Poems written by the prolific Chilean poet between the 1920's and 1940's illuminate his views on al… read more
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9. Bluebeard's Egg
By: Margaret Atwood
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard'S Eggglows with childhood memories, th… read more
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10. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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11. Skinwalkers (Leaphorn & Chee, #7)
By: Tony Hillerman
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead the… read more
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12. Sometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
4.26
Format: 628 pages, Paperback
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Follo… read more
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"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
". . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
13. Venus and Adonis
By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more
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14. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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15. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
16. The Hotel New Hampshire
By: John Irving
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, an… read more
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17. A Widow for One Year
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, this is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotion… read more
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18. Setting Free the Bears
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after … read more
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19. The Cannibal
By: John Hawkes
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse… read more
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20. The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death & the Universe
By: Carlos Castaneda
3.99
Format: 244 pages, paper
World-renowned bestselling author Carlos Castaneda's Selection of his wrtings on the shamans of anc… read more
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21. Nostromo
By: Joseph Conrad
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more
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