The Paris Review, Issue 242, Winter 2022
By: Emily Stokes
3.52
Format: 282 pages, Perfectbound
N. Scott Momaday on the Art of Poetry: “There are all kinds of things that I remember. I wish I cou…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. My Name is Red
By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more
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- fiction
4. Sex and Rage
By: Eve Babitz
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more
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6. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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7. Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Thomas R. Flynn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century, existentialism has had more im… read more
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8. The Raw Shark Texts
By: Steven Hall
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to… read more
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9. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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10. 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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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
12. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
13. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- short stories
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
14. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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15. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- fiction
16. The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more
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- fiction
17. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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18. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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19. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
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"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
20. McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible
By: Brian Evenson
4.04
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some tim… read more
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- short stories
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21. 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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22. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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23. The Lights: Poems
By: Ben Lerner
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more
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- poetry
24. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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25. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
26. The Paris Review, Issue 242, Winter 2022
By: Emily Stokes
3.52
Format: 282 pages, Perfectbound
N. Scott Momaday on the Art of Poetry: “There are all kinds of things that I remember. I wish I cou… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
- fiction
27. The Paris Review, Issue 207, Winter 2013
By: Lorin Stein
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Perfectbound
Geoff Dyer on the art of nonfiction: "The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial a… read more
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- poetry
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28. 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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29. Granta 160: Conflict
By: Sigrid Rausing
3.89
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, ea… read more
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- short stories
30. THE PARIS REVIEW NO. 243
By: The Paris Review
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Paris Review’s seventieth-anniversary issue, no. 243. Mary Gaitskill on the Art of Fiction: … read more
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31. The Paris Review, Issue 231, Winter 2019
By: Emily Nemens
3.77
Format: 220 pages, Perfectbound
George Saunders on the Art of Fiction: "It's important to critique the way we live, because America… read more
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- poetry
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- fiction
