There’s a Tale to This City
By: Jay Khan
4.32
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange wor…
Want to Read"Julie cowers at noises Julie waits before she speaks Julie speaks before she thinks;"-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
"Julie cowers at noises Julie waits before she speaks Julie speaks before she thinks;"-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
"Most folk like to be heard. They like to feel as if their words hold some sort of value. When you're dead, you're dead. And no cosmetic thing can keep you alive. But our words, our stories, our wisdom ... these are the only things that can keep us alive, in spirit. If it's not written down, our entire existence will fade away faster than that birdshit next to your foot."-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
"Most folk like to be heard. They like to feel as if their words hold some sort of value. When you're dead, you're dead. And no cosmetic thing can keep you alive. But our words, our stories, our wisdom ... these are the only things that can keep us alive, in spirit. If it's not written down, our entire existence will fade away faster than that birdshit next to your foot."-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
3. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
By: Neil Gaiman
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Multiple award winning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivat… read more
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4. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- poetry
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
7. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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8. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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9. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
10. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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11. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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12. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more
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13. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more
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14. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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15. Love Is a Dog from Hell
By: Charles Bukowski
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more
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16. The Haunting of Hill House
By: Shirley Jackson , None
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more
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17. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
18. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more
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19. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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20. Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
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3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their w… read more
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21. Letter to His Father
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3.68
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23. Time Is a Mother
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Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
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24. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
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4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
25. Happy Hour
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3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
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"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
26. Milk Teeth
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3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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27. On Sun Swallowing
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4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more
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"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing
28. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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29. There’s a Tale to This City
By: Jay Khan
4.32
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange wor… read more
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"Julie cowers at noises Julie waits before she speaks Julie speaks before she thinks;"-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
"Most folk like to be heard. They like to feel as if their words hold some sort of value. When you're dead, you're dead. And no cosmetic thing can keep you alive. But our words, our stories, our wisdo…"-Jay Khan, There’s a Tale to This City
30. The Street Poet
By: Jaidyn L. Attard
4.68
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Poetry on the walls. Needles in the gutters. Preachers on the corners. Protesters on the roads. Peo… read more
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31. Passing Tales
By: R.C. Waldun
3.00
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