Somebody's Darling
By: Larry McMurtry
3.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Forty years ago, Larry McMurtry journeyed from the sprawling ranches of his early work to the provo…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I knew sex was all you ever though about, she said, I just forgot."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"I knew sex was all you ever though about, she said, I just forgot."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"I knew sex was all you ever though about, she said, I just forgot."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"Why tell women the truth, anyway? No need to add to their advantages."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
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1. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
By: Robert Dallek
3.99
Format: 849 pages, Paperback
Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is … read more
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"She was a little removed,"-Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
2. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
3. Cathedral
By: Nelson DeMille
3.87
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
St Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating but everyone is in for the shock of his li… read more
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- fiction
4. An Evening of Long Goodbyes
By: Paul Murray
3.64
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Charles Hythloday observes the world from the comfortable confines of his family estate, and doesn’… read more
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- novels
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
"Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s …"-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes
"You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values ! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things…"-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes
"The accursed ship didn't sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast em…"-Paul Murray, An Evening of Long Goodbyes
5. Hard Country (Kerney Family, #1)
By: Michael McGarrity
4.16
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of his wife's death while giving birth to their son, and the loss of his brother on the… read more
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- westerns
- novels
- fiction
6. To a God Unknown
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne … read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
"He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"مرگ حتی هنگامیکه میدانیم باید بیاید ما را به وحشت میاندازد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"ما همه او را دوست داشتیم، اما میان محبت و تنفر فاصله اندکی وجود دارد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
7. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more
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- novels
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
8. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
By: David Simon
3.65
Format: 135 pages,
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more
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9. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Timequake
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more
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- novels
- classics
- humor
- fiction
11. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- classics
12. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
13. 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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- novels
- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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- westerns
- fiction
- contemporary
"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
15. Shotgun Lovesongs
By: Nickolas Butler
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town -- Little Wing -- a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Swiss Family Robinson
By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson
17. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
18. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
By: Jon Meacham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more
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19. An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12)
By: Craig Johnson
3.63
Format: 256 pages,
In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Longmire series--the basis for the hit … read more
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20. The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
By: Herman Wouk
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the… read more
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21. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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22. Hocus Pocus
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of… read more
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23. The Fortress of Solitude
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins … read more
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24. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
25. My Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
4.20
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more
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"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
26. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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27. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy
By: Bill Griffith
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told t… read more
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- humor
28. Larry McMurtry: A Life
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.25
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry fr… read more
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- westerns
29. Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
By: Peter Stark
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A vivid account of the rivalry between William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh, and the Native American… read more
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30. Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife… read more
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31. Somebody's Darling
By: Larry McMurtry
3.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Forty years ago, Larry McMurtry journeyed from the sprawling ranches of his early work to the provo… read more
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- classics
- film
- westerns
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I knew sex was all you ever though about, she said, I just forgot."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"Why tell women the truth, anyway? No need to add to their advantages."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
"I couldn't quite say 'If you loved me' - we had always avoided the word. A mark of good taste on both our parts."-Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling
