Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina…
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1. The Safety of Objects
By: A.M. Homes
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories establis… read more
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- literary fiction
- americana
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"If you are ever in a praying situation with Him: Be Specific! Include certain clauses. It’s not enough to assume that if a person lives they’ll be okay… Cause God has a wicked sense of humor. And eve…"-A.M. Homes, The Safety of Objects
2. The Rainbow Stories
By: William T. Vollmann
3.97
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen un… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- americana
- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
3. Butterfly Stories
By: William T. Vollmann
3.71
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Heralded as “one of America’s most intrepid fictional frontiersmen” ( Publishers Weekly ), William … read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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- fiction
4. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
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7. Slaves of New York
By: Tama Janowitz
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for l… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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- short stories
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- contemporary
8. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
9. Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more
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- american
- americana
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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11. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. The Twenty-Seventh City
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.88
Format: None pages,
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic… read more
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13. Strong Motion
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'. 'Strong Motion' is the … read more
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14. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
By: David Lipsky
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces… read more
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15. 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
- american
- fiction
16. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
By: D.T. Max
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Fo… read more
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- american
17. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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18. Orbitor. Aripa stângă
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Suntem omizi si vom deveni fluturi, iata intreaga noastra poveste, tot sensul nostru in lume, intr-… read more
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19. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
20. Whores for Gloria
By: William T. Vollmann
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crowscomes this fe… read more
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21. Europe Central
By: William T. Vollmann
4.22
Format: None pages,
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritari… read more
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22. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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23. Snow White
By: Donald Barthelme
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This book first appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. Certain portions also app… read more
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24. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
25. The Counterlife
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Counterlifeis about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so f… read more
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26. Cosmopolis
By: Don DeLillo
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more
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27. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
28. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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29. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
30. What Happens at Night
By: Peter Cameron
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more
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31. Il re di tutti. Un ritratto di Stephen King
By: Luca Briasco
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Per molti è il più grande scrittore degli ultimi decenni. Per altri le sue storie horror sono robac… read more
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