The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
By: Jonathan Simons
4.50
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2020 Silver Medal Winner for Anthologies In the second …
Want to Read"Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Miami
By: Joan Didion
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hyp… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Havana vanities come to dust in Miami."-Joan Didion, Miami
3. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
4. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
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
- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"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. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
By: Steele Savage , Edith Hamilton
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless … read more
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- nonfiction
7. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. The Holographic Universe
By: Michael Talbot
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space wit… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
9. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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10. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
12. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
13. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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- poetry
- art
- nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
14. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
15. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
16. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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17. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
18. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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- nonfiction
19. 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
20. Ne m'oublie pas
By: Alix Garin
4.40
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
La grand-mère de Clémence souffre de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Face à son désespoir, elle prend la dé… read more
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"Too late" arrives sooner than we think."-Alix Garin, Ne m'oublie pas
"Trop tard" arrive plus vite qu'on le croit."-Alix Garin, Ne m'oublie pas
21. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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22. Vladimir
By: Julia May Jonas
3.44
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more
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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
23. The Factory
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.34
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more
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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
24. Virgil Wander
By: Leif Enger
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more
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"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
25. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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26. All My Cats
By: Bohumil Hrabal
3.58
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech au… read more
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"He could not turn back the clock a second, nor could he ever push it forward a second, so that what happened had to happen."-Bohumil Hrabal, All My Cats
"In the end, when I could no longer hope or believe, when I was already a wreck, why did you take me back, a body without a soul, without love?"-Bohumil Hrabal, All My Cats
"Somehow I had reached an age when being in love with a beautiful woman was beyond my reach because I was now bald and my face was full of wrinkles, yet the cats loved me the way girls used to love me…"-Bohumil Hrabal, All My Cats
"I no longer felt alone and it gave me, not strength, but a sweet sensation of happiness, though I knew sadness was lurking not far off, because all being arises from nonbeing, and everything that exi…"-Bohumil Hrabal, All My Cats
27. Orakel
By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
3.75
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
From international bestseller Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Oracle, a supernatural thriller where an om… read more
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28. The Madman's Gallery
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Enter The Madman’s Gallery and discover an extraordinary exhibition of the greatest curiosities fro… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
29. The Lost Pianos of Siberia
By: Sophy Roberts
3.99
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth … read more
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- nonfiction
"Siberia is a nightmare or a myth full of impenetrable forests and limitless plains, its murderous proportions strung with groaning oil derricks and sagging wires. Siberia is all those things, and mor…"-Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia
30. The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
By: Jonathan Simons
4.50
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2020 Silver Medal Winner for Anthologies In the second … read more
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- art
- anthologies
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Life is tragic, and therefore unutterably beautiful."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"Consumption can never satisfy because the logic of the consumable object demands the creation of new insatiable needs."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
"The suffering at such times [of bereavement] can be great, I know. But it is somehow comforting to learn, even through suffering, how large and powerful love is."-Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number Two
31. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
