Washington, D.C.
By: Gore Vidal
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-…
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1. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
2. Washington, D.C.
By: Gore Vidal
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-… read more
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3. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)
By: Philip Roth
3.74
Format: 296 pages,
I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more
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4. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
5. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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6. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more
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7. The Law at Randado
By: Elmore Leonard
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when … read more
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8. Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
By: John Updike
4.14
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run,John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harr… read more
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9. Here Is New York
By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more
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10. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
11. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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12. Henderson the Rain King
By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more
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13. Nemesis
By: Philip Roth
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the child… read more
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14. Humboldt's Gift
By: Saul Bellow
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more
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15. The Unvanquished
By: William Faulkner
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartori… read more
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16. Sabbath's Theater
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Sabbath's Theateris a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero… read more
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17. A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more
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18. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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19. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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20. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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21. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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