Too Much of Life
By: Clarice Lispector
4.53
Format: 742 pages, Paperback
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Bet…
Want to Read $ 14.16"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
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1. A Season in Hell
By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more
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- literature
- classics
"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
2. Vita Nova
By: Louise Glück
3.95
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In Vita Nova , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück man… read more
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- nonfiction
- female authors
"be a brave dog - this is all material"-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"His gaze touched me before his hands touched me."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"It was never focus that was missing, it was meaning."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
3. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- literature
- female authors
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- literature
- classics
- 20th century
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- literature
6. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
7. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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8. A Spaniard in the Works
By: John Lennon
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
"It is fascinating of course to climb inside a Beatle's head to see what's going on there, but what… read more
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- classics
- short stories
9. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
10. Glass, Irony and God
By: Guy Davenport , Anne Carson
4.32
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with s… read more
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- literature
- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
"...I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"Not passion but compassion. Com—means "with." What kind of withness would that be?"-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
"Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days."-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God
11. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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- classics
- essays
- female authors
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
12. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
13. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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- classics
- biography
- memoir
- literature
- nonfiction
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
14. 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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15. Duino Elegies
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more
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16. Autoportrait
By: Édouard Levé , Lorin Stein
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting … read more
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17. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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18. 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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19. Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
By: Peter Filkins , Ingeborg Bachmann , Charles Simic
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Darkness Spokengathers together Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as earl… read more
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20. Antigonick
By: Sophocles , Anne Carson , Bianca Stone
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by A… read more
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21. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- memoir
- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
22. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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- 20th century
23. 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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"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
24. 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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- essays
"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
25. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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26. Poems 1962-2020
By: Louise Glück
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif… read more
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27. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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28. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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- essays
29. Baby, I Don't Care
By: Chelsey Minnis
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I’ve read in some time."― Dwight Garner, New… read more
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"Can you tell me I'm worse than others? OK, yes, I'm worse than others, but can you say I'm the worst of all?"-Chelsey Minnis, Baby, I Don't Care
30. Too Much of Life
By: Clarice Lispector
4.53
Format: 742 pages, Paperback
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Bet… read more
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- classics
- biography
- memoir
- female authors
- literature
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
- writing
"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E tudo é muito para um coração de repente enfraquecido que só suporta o menos, só pode querer o pouco e aos poucos."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
31. A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
By: Ali Smith
3.36
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired … read more
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