Wenlock Edge
By: Alice Murno
3.77
Format: None pages, None
a short story that appeared in the New Yorker in 2005.
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1. The Overcoat
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.15
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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5. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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6. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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8. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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9. The Baron in the Trees
By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more
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"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
10. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
By: Wells Tower
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter b… read more
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11. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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12. Black-Eyed Women (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 246)
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen , None
3.67
Format: 348 pages,
"Viet Thanh Nguyen writes funny. "Black-Eyed Women" begins with the many unpleasant ways that one c… read more
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13. El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.00
Format: 468 pages,
Cuento de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Acompanado por fotografias de Hernan Diaz. read more
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14. Stone Animals
By: Kelly Link
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A family moves into a house, a possibly haunted house, and the rabbits on the front porch stir and … read more
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15. Fifteen Dogs
By: André Alexis
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more
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16. The Witch Boy
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more
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17. Paper Lantern: Love Stories
By: Stuart Dybek
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of ro… read more
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18. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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19. The Minority Report
By: Philip K. Dick
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of… read more
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20. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
21. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
22. Monterosso mon amour
By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
3.64
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Wordt ontevredenheid tevredenheid als je je erbij neerlegt?’ Carmen, een kinderloze vrouw van iets … read more
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"Ze voelde zich oud want ze hield van lezen"-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Monterosso mon amour
"Je moet het verhaal zorgvuldig opbouwen van inleiding naar climax en met tergende precisie chronologisch vooruit kruipen van aankomst naar conversatie, woord voor woord naverteld met aandachtig voor …"-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Monterosso mon amour
23. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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24. Cat Person
By: Kristen Roupenian
3.67
Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition
She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herse… read more
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25. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
26. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
27. The Babysitter
By: Robert Coover
3.39
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
'She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late...' She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfr… read more
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28. The Man to Send Rain Clouds
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.54
Format: 10 pages, None
"They found him under a big cottonwood tree . . . " ___ Originally published in 1968 under the na… read more
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29. Wenlock Edge
By: Alice Murno
3.77
Format: None pages, None
a short story that appeared in the New Yorker in 2005. read more
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30. Standard Loneliness Package from the Collection Sorry Please Thank You
By: Charles Yu
3.93
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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31. Bad Neighbors
By: Edward P. Jones
3.56
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
A short story from the collection All Aunt Hagar’s Children. read more
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