The Strange World of Willie Seabrook
By: Marjorie Muir Worthington
3.82
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
Literary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two Marjo…
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1. The Mad and the Bad
By: James Sallis , Donald Nicholson-Smith , Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.73
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose imme… read more
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2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
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3. Asylum
By: William B. Seabrook
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
In 1934, William Seabrook was one of the most famous journalists in the world. He was also an alcoh… read more
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4. American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist
By: Paola Igliori
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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6. Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
By: Mary Woronov , Billy Name
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Swimming Underground is Mary Woronov's blazing memoir about her near lethal experiences in Andy War… read more
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7. You Can't Win
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Black
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
You hold in your hands a true lost classic, one of the most legendary cult books every published in… read more
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8. In the Freud Archives
By: Janet Malcolm , A.O. Scott
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archivestells the story of an unlikely encounter a… read more
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9. Zazie in the Metro
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more
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11. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
12. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
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13. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
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By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
18. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
19. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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21. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
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4.25
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22. Blackouts
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3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Houseguest and Other Stories
By: Amparo Dávila
3.65
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more
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"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories
24. Mary
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3.80
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Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more
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25. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy
By: Bill Griffith
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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26. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
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Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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27. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
28. Fifty Sounds
By: Polly Barton
4.15
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
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"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
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"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
29. De knetterende schedels
By: Roger van de Velde
4.06
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In De knetterende schedels beschrijft Roger Van de Velde zijn compagnons de misère in de instelling… read more
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30. The Strange World of Willie Seabrook
By: Marjorie Muir Worthington
3.82
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
Literary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two Marjo… read more
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31. I Didn't See It Coming
By: William E. Jones
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I Didn’t See It Coming is the dark and exciting culmination of William E. Jones’s trilogy of novels… read more
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