The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
By: Edmund White
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the boo…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Maybe “texts"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"Maybe “texts"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"The French word for “plot,"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"The French word for “plot,"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
By: Philip Roth
3.91
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more
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"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. A Single Man
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
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6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. Giving Up the Ghost
By: Hilary Mantel
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishmen… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
8. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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9. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more
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10. The End of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more
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11. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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12. The Uncommon Reader
By: Alan Bennett
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more
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- books about books
"Книгите подпалват въображението."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
13. Perrault's Fairy Tales
By: Charles Perrault , Gustave Doré
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passeby the great Charles … read more
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14. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
15. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
16. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
17. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
18. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
19. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
20. 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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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
21. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
By: Paul Newman
3.89
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
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22. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
24. Different for Boys
By: Patrick Ness
3.82
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
25. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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- queer
- gay
- lgbt
26. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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27. Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
28. Inside Story
By: Martin Amis
4.00
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers… read more
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"In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins of the heart (real or imagined), it's your wives, your children, and h…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
"While we were moving from Camden Town, London, to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, there was much to do: and Elena did almost all of it. At the outset she made it clear that by far the greatest obstacle we wou…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
29. Where Angels Fear to Tread
By: E.M. Forster
3.60
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more
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"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
30. The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
By: Edmund White
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the boo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- literary criticism
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- queer
"Maybe “texts"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"The French word for “plot,"-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"I’m not sure what readers want."-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
"When history gives out, fiction takes over."-Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
31. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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- queer
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