Pages from a Cold Island (A Fan's Notes, #2)
By: Frederick Exley
3.52
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of Amer…
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1. Trout Fishing in America
By: Richard Brautigan
3.76
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more
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"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
3. Black Swan Green
By: David Mitchell
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more
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"Trees're always a relief, after people."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
4. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
5. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
6. Mystic River
By: Dennis Lehane
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange… read more
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"We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"I’m just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
7. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
8. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
By: James Crumley
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more
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9. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
By: Kim Cooper
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cooper's book explores the deep friendships that fed the band's evolution, its role within the Elep… read more
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10. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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11. Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
By: Renata Adler
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From a legendary journalist and star writer at "The New Yorker" comes an insider's look at the maga… read more
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12. A Separation
By: Katie Kitamura
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A yo… read more
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13. The Sarah Book
By: Scott McClanahan
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more
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14. Pick-Up
By: Charles Willeford
4.01
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
He Holed Up With a Helpless Lush Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is … read more
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"No whiskey, no religion, nothing."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
"There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats."-Charles Willeford, Pick-Up
15. World's End
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seve… read more
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16. A Feast of Snakes
By: Harry Crews
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more
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18. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
19. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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20. 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)
21. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
22. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
By: Maureen Callahan
4.09
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more
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"I've got lots more stories to tell."-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
23. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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24. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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25. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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26. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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27. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
28. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
29. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
30. The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
By: David Neiwert
4.10
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
"An important book, offering the clearest explanation of how dark forces conspired to overthrow our… read more
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"Many observers, including historians, compared it to previous periods of societal strife in the United States, including the Civil War and the Civil Rights era. “What’s different about almost all tho…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"That, in fact, is how the American right had come to deal with reality: just throw so much misinformation out there that the public becomes unable to discern fact from fiction—at which point right-wi…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"One of the peculiar realities of conspiracism is that people who believe in conspiracy theories rarely ever believe just one; most conspiracy theories are interconnected by the nature of their afactu…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"A central feature of the spread of far-right politics is the intimidation directed at mainstream liberals and even Republicans who refuse to participate in their incoherent conspiracism: As with all …"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
31. Pages from a Cold Island (A Fan's Notes, #2)
By: Frederick Exley
3.52
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of Amer… read more
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