Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.09
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume…
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1. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
By: Anne Fadiman
4.10
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
2. Fiesta en la madriguera
By: Juan Pablo Villalobos
3.78
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses.… read more
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"Це весела тема - з війною, мерцями і кров'ю."-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera
"In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just wor…"-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera
3. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
By: Helena Attlee
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Flaubert's Parrot
By: Julian Barnes
3.65
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and … read more
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"How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
5. The Country Life
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Stella Benson, anxious to leave London and begin a new life, journeys to rural Sussex to work as an… read more
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6. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
By: Tom Nichols
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Night Train
By: Martin Amis
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more
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8. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
By: Andrew Wilson
4.36
Format: 184 pages,
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known chara… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
9. 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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"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
10. Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Harry Clarke
3.78
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
King pest -- MS. found in a bottle -- Silence-a fable -- Berenice -- William Wilson -- Ligeia -- Th… read more
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11. Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanvaerk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgard nadelost og … read more
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13. Experience: A Memoir
By: Martin Amis
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father… read more
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14. The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
By: Dashiell Hammett , Lillian Hellman , Jeff Stone
4.12
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Contin… read more
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15. Building Great Sentences
By: Brooks Landon
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentencescelebrates the shee… read more
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16. Palimpsest
By: Gore Vidal
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant o… read more
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17. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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- queer
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"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
18. The Trip to Echo Spring
By: Olivia Laing
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip o… read more
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19. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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20. Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
By: Richard Bradford
3.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strang… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
21. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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- nonfiction
22. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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23. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- memoir
24. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
25. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
By: Grace Ellis
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more
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- biography
- queer
- lgbt
26. A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré
By: John Le Carré
4.15
Format: 1088 pages, Paperback
An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thou… read more
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- biography
- history
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27. Under a Rock: A Memoir
By: Chris Stein
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Har… read more
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28. Sánchez
By: Esther García Llovet
3.40
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Una aventura urbana y nocturna por un Madrid que no sale en las postales. Un thriller surreal con d… read more
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29. Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.09
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume… read more
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- diary
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- writing
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30. Schrödingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum: Durch die Hintertür zur Wissenschaft
By: Ernst Peter Fischer
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Mandelbrot’s tree, Maxwell’s demon, Schrödinger’s cat, Newton’s clock, Einstein’s ghost – many scie… read more
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- nonfiction
31. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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