The Guyana Quartet
By: Wilson Harris
3.76
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. The Secret Service (Sun & Moon Classics)
By: Wendy Walker
4.58
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
The Secret Service melds alternative history and speculative physics (morphing) in a fabulist ficti… read more
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- literature
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3. Sudden Death
By: Natasha Wimmer , Álvaro Enrigue
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that co… read more
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"Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Encuerados, solo deberían alborotarnos los monstruos, y sin embargo lo que nos trastorna es lo que se asemeja a un estándar"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Ya no era cosa de vida o muerte, sino de victoria y derrota--valores mucho más complejos y duros de llevar porque el que pierde un duelo a espada no tiene que vivir con ello."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"It isn't a book about Caravaggio or Quevedo, though Caravaggio and Quevedo are in the book, as are Cortés and Cuauhtémoc, and Galileo and Pius IV. Gigantic individuals facing off. All fucking, gettin…"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
4. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
5. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
By: Ernest Hemingway
4.29
Format: 650 pages, Paperback
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of E… read more
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"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
6. Complete Plays
By: Sarah Kane , David Greig
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Kane's first play, Blasted, was staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1995 it was… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
7. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
8. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
By: Marguerite Young
4.25
Format: 1198 pages, Hardcover
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a p… read more
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"The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman with ample breasts, those of a realized maturity. It would be impossible that he did not have, from my point of…"-Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
9. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
10. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
11. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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12. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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13. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
By: Bruno Schulz , Celina Wieniewska
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis … read more
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- literature
- classics
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14. The Birds
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more
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16. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
18. The Lost Steps
By: Alejo Carpentier , Harriet de Onís
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one o… read more
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19. El siglo de las luces
By: Alejo Carpentier
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
El siglo de las luces novela el impacto de la Revolucion francesa en las Antillas: los suenos de li… read more
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20. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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22. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
23. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- contemporary
24. Mater 2-10
By: Hwang Sok-yong
3.67
Format: 486 pages, Paperback
International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more
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25. The Birthday Party
By: Laurent Mauvignier
3.75
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more
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26. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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27. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
28. Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir
By: Péter Nádas
4.24
Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition
The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers.“When telling one’s life story to someon… read more
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29. Shimmering Details, Volume II: A Memoir
By: Péter Nádas
4.55
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. “Instead of a chronicle, a person tend… read more
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30. The Guyana Quartet
By: Wilson Harris
3.76
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
Everyman Masters, sixty-five, begins a spiritual journey through the mysterious Caribbean carnival … read more
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31. The End of August
By: Yū Miri
3.52
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generati… read more
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