The Field of Vision
By: Wright Morris
3.27
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the …
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1. Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
By: Barry Unsworth
4.12
Format: 630 pages, Paperback
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with… read more
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"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way"-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
2. Postcards
By: Annie Proulx
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This is story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that … read more
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- literary fiction
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3. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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- literary fiction
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
4. Steps
By: Jerzy Kosiński
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- literature
- fiction
6. Sister Wolf
By: Ann Arensberg
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Marit Deym lives alone on a thousand-acre inhe… read more
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- fiction
7. Morte D'Urban
By: J.F. Powers , Elizabeth Hardwick
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
8. Philadelphia Fire
By: John Edgar Wideman
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and James Baldwin' s Go Tell It On the Mountain c… read more
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- fiction
9. G.
By: John Berger
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. The Conservationist
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
11. The Magic Barrel
By: Bernard Malamud , Jhumpa Lahiri
4.67
Format: 360 pages,
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Ma… read more
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12. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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13. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
14. Paco's Story
By: Larry Heinemann
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Ba… read more
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15. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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16. Spartina
By: John Casey
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartinais the… read more
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17. Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
By: William Golding
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to enterta… read more
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18. Staying On
By: Paul Scott
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more
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19. The Waters of Kronos
By: Conrad Richter
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronossparked lively… read more
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20. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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21. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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- fiction
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
22. The Counterlife
By: Philip Roth
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Counterlifeis about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so f… read more
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23. The End of Drum-Time
By: Hanna Pylväinen
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more
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- fiction
24. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
25. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- fiction
26. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- fiction
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
27. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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- fiction
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
28. 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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- fiction
29. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- fiction
30. Blood Tie
By: Mary Lee Settle
3.37
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In a novel that begins with accidental death and ends with deliberate murder, Mary Lee Settle tells… read more
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31. The Field of Vision
By: Wright Morris
3.27
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the … read more
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