Ivory Pearl
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Out of the wreckage of World War II swaggers Ivory Pearl, so named (rhymes with girl) by some Briti…
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1. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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- 20th century
- fiction
"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
2. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)
By: James Crumley
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
5. A Way of Life, Like Any Other
By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- fiction
- 20th century
6. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- fiction
7. In the Café of Lost Youth
By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron
3.53
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Lau… read more
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
"Quand on aime vraiment quelqu'un, il faut accepter sa part de mystère... et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime..."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
8. We Who Are About To...
By: Joanna Russ
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an u… read more
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- fiction
9. Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten
By: Erich Kästner
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Erich Kastner kennen viele nur als Autor von Kinder- und Jugendbuchern. Dass er auch zeitkritische … read more
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10. Death in Venice and Other Stories
By: Thomas Mann , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Death in Veniceis a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but aging writer who… read more
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11. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
By: Larry McMurtry , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Ranging from Texas to California on a young writer's journey in a car he calls El Chevy, All My Fri… read more
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12. The Mourner (Parker, #4)
By: Richard Stark
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)
13. He Died With His Eyes Open
By: James Sallis , Derek Raymond
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the … read more
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14. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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- noir
- 20th century
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
15. Obras completas
By: Augusto Monterroso
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"Obras completas (y otros cuentos)" con este titulo de impasible ironia se dio a conocer un escrito… read more
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16. Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Westlake pens another comedy caper of seven men who have the perfect alibi--they are in jail. The c… read more
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17. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
By: George V. Higgins
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more
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18. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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- 20th century
- fiction
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
19. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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20. Ravelstein
By: Saul Bellow
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories … read more
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21. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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- 20th century
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
22. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
23. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
24. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- fiction
25. A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Set in Downton Abbey-era post-World War I England, this action-packed series from the USA Today bes… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
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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- fiction
27. La habitación alemana
By: Carla Maliandi
3.80
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
¿Podemos afirmar que La habitación alemana, primera novela de Carla Maliandi, inventa un género nue… read more
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- fiction
28. The Criminal Child and Other Essays
By: Jean Genet
3.73
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in … read more
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- france
- french literature
- 20th century
"…one must love the Circus and despise the world."-Jean Genet, The Criminal Child and Other Essays
"And messieurs, mesdames, mesdemoiselles, you must not presume that it is enough for you to condescend to the criminal child, lavishing your attention, your concern, your indulgence upon him in the be…"-Jean Genet, The Criminal Child and Other Essays
29. Ivory Pearl
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Out of the wreckage of World War II swaggers Ivory Pearl, so named (rhymes with girl) by some Briti… read more
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- espionage
- mystery thriller
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- mystery
- thriller
- noir
- crime
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- espionage
- mystery thriller
- france
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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- crime
- 20th century
