Ariane, A Russian Girl (New York Review Classics)
By: Claude Anet
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this long-overdue translation of the novel that inspired the 1957 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper…
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1. Sleepwalking
By: Meg Wolitzer
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The debut novel from New York Times–bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a story of three college stude… read more
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"It was too easy. Letting go also meant other things, things people never discussed. There were restrictions; everything always had to be cathartic these days."-Meg Wolitzer, Sleepwalking
"Are you afraid of me? I mean, I read in a book... that people are scared off by people with diseases because it reminds them of their own mortality and stuff."-Meg Wolitzer, Sleepwalking
"Until there is no longer the possibility of sadness, of isolation, there can be no gravity. We all float by, rootless, taking clumsy astronaut steps and calling it progress."-Meg Wolitzer, Sleepwalking
"They had told each other so many things—God, it embarrassed him even to think about it. Cathy had taken away with her a good many of his secrets, his most vulnerable moments. She had taken away a hun…"-Meg Wolitzer, Sleepwalking
2. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
3. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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4. A High Wind in Jamaica
By: Francine Prose , Richard Hughes
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in E… read more
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5. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
By: Anita Loos
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more
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7. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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8. Astragal
By: Albertine Sarrazin , Patti Smith , Patsy Southgate
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. "L'ast… read more
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10. Living Fearlessly: Bringing Out Your Inner Soul Strength
By: Paramahansa Yogananda
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
This guide teaches us how to break the shackles of fear and reveals how we can overcome our own psy… read more
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11. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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12. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
13. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
14. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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15. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
16. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
By: Mathias Énard
3.86
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more
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"We all ape God in His absence."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
19. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
20. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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21. Ariane, A Russian Girl (New York Review Classics)
By: Claude Anet
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this long-overdue translation of the novel that inspired the 1957 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper… read more
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