Drinking
By: John Cheever
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and han…
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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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"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. Death Be Not Proud
By: John Gunther
3.86
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor t… read more
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- classics
"Live while you live, then die and be done with."-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
"(...) about one of his schools he said, "I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourt…"-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
3. The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)
By: Grace Paley
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrate… read more
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- short stories
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- fiction
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4. Eating: Vintage Minis
By: Nigella Lawson
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how t… read more
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5. Swing Time
By: Zadie Smith
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abou… read more
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- fiction
6. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
By: Carson McCullers
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more
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- short stories
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- american
7. The Children Act
By: Ian McEwan
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case wh… read more
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- fiction
8. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. Race: Vintage Minis
By: Toni Morrison
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels ra… read more
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- short stories
- classics
10. Home: Vintage Minis
By: Salman Rushdie
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true… read more
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- short stories
11. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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12. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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13. Desire: Vintage Minis
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel , Ted Goossen
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're dest… read more
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14. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
By: Tim Burton
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burtonhas … read more
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15. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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16. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more
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17. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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18. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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19. Death: Vintage Minis
By: Julian Barnes
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian … read more
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20. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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21. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
22. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
23. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
24. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
25. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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26. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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27. She and Her Cat: Stories
By: Makoto Shinkai
3.89
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestsel… read more
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"I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat: Stories
28. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
29. Heatwave
By: Victor Jestin
3.16
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and bec… read more
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"Elle ne m'aime pas. Elle ne m'aime plus. J'ai mis l'éternité dans deux heures qui n'étaient rien pour elle, elle est partie laver son linge et elle est revenue."-Victor Jestin, Heatwave
30. The Power of Words
By: Simone Weil
3.56
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines… read more
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31. Drinking
By: John Cheever
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and han… read more
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