The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions
By: Maud Casey
3.98
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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1. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By: Henry James , None
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more
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2. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
3. The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
By: Joan Silber
3.88
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan… read more
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"Length is weight in fiction, pretty much."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
4. The Mezzanine
By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more
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5. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
By: Charles Baxter
4.02
Format: 426 pages,
Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intel… read more
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6. The Art of Description: World into Word
By: Mark Doty
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for … read more
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7. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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8. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
By: William Zinsser
4.24
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more
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"Less is more."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Truth needs no adornment."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Writers are the custodians of memory..."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
9. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
10. Revolutionary Road
By: Richard Yates
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more
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11. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
By: Janet Burroway , Elizabeth Stuckey-French
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story w… read more
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12. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
13. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.60
Format: None pages,
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Se… read more
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14. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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15. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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16. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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17. How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
By: Lee Child
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mys… read more
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18. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
19. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
20. Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
By: Matt Bell
4.46
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done… read more
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21. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
By: Jane Alison
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more
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"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
22. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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23. Squire
By: Nadia Shammas
4.06
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more
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24. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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25. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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26. Flight Risk
By: Joy Castro
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family… read more
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"It's a hard fact, Daughter, but pretend love feels better than no love at all."-Joy Castro, Flight Risk
"I didn't want to go inside, to nod at condolences, to taste that mixture of casseroles and grief."-Joy Castro, Flight Risk
"Perhaps it is impossible for people who don't have younger siblings - or, to be more precise, people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings - to imagine th…"-Joy Castro, Flight Risk
"Sometimes I think of us all, temporarily inhabiting the same vehicles, the same streets, but with our networks of love overlapping, like layers upon layers of spiderwebs until the whole thing is a de…"-Joy Castro, Flight Risk
27. The Art of Revision: The Last Word
By: Peter Ho Davies
4.27
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision―on the page and in li… read more
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28. Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
By: Juan Villoro
3.99
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, t… read more
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29. The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions
By: Maud Casey
3.98
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelist The f… read more
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30. The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
By: Jennifer Michael Hecht
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection t… read more
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- writing
31. Lives of the Animals
By: Robert Wrigley
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the obs… read more
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