The Catherine Wheel
By: Jean Stafford
3.84
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Summering at her country home in Maine, Katherine Congreve is afraid John Shipley's son will blame …
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1. The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
By: Truman Capote
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing mi… read more
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"So little, once it has changed, changes back."-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
"Dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us."-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
"If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove."-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
"If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day."-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
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"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner or…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
3. Sleepless Nights
By: Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick
3.74
Format: 410 pages,
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life--the parade of people, the shifting background o… read more
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4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. 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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- american
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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
"The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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7. Don't Look Now and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories
8. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more
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- american
9. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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- fiction
10. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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11. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
12. 99 Stories of God
By: Joy Williams
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williamshas a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing … read more
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13. The Magic Toyshop
By: Angela Carter
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her worl… read more
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14. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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15. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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16. Felicia's Journey
By: William Trevor
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts t… read more
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17. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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18. The Best of Everything
By: Rona Jaffe
3.64
Format: 320 pages,
When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction f… read more
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19. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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20. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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21. 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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23. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)
By: Anthony Powell
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more
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24. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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25. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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26. Our House
By: Louise Candlish
3.69
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bough… read more
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27. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
By: Georges Simenon
3.81
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But… read more
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28. A Children's Bible
By: Lydia Millet
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more
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"The nuclear threat. So quaint."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"Once we lived in a summer country."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
29. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
30. The Catherine Wheel
By: Jean Stafford
3.84
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Summering at her country home in Maine, Katherine Congreve is afraid John Shipley's son will blame … read more
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