Gallery of Clouds
By: Rachel Eisendrath
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia wa…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Goest
By: Cole Swensen
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the poet is… read more
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"Five The air across the valley is slightly hazy though thinning though patches remain between the groves of trees that edge a clearing in which stands a single house. A child in a white t-shirt has j…"-Cole Swensen, Goest
3. Living by Fiction
By: Annie Dillard , None
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A beautiful repackaging of Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism. "Everyone who timidl… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- books about books
- literary criticism
"I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair."-Annie Dillard, Living by Fiction
4. Antwerp
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
As Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, Antwerpcan be viewed … read more
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5. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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6. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
7. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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8. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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9. Alphabet
By: Inger Christensen , Susanna Nied
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's transl… read more
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10. So Much Blue
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and th… read more
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11. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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12. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
By: Rachel Cusk
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to It… read more
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13. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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14. Watermark
By: Joseph Brodsky , None
4.08
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more
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"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
15. Dictee
By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more
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16. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
17. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
18. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
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19. A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
By: Anne Boyer
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry… read more
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"There is a lot of room for a meaning inside a “no"-Anne Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
"The pantheon of those who won’t is the best church poetry has to offer. It’s a temple perfumed with the incense of sacrificed literary reputation, littered with bankruptcy notices for cynical cultura…"-Anne Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
"The object of love is not an object at all, and that you’ve mistaken a person for an object is what’s wrong with love’s distortions. To feel the wretched pain of a love after a love has long ended is…"-Anne Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
"Poetry, which was once itself a searching engine, exists in abundance now, as searchable and as immaterial as any other information. As it always had, poetry experiments in fashionable confusions, ex…"-Anne Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
20. Gallery of Clouds
By: Rachel Eisendrath
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia wa… read more
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21. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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