CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
By: Sjón
3.72
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962—twenty years in the making—is Sjón's epic three-p…
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1. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
2. Jitterbug Perfume
By: Tom Robbins
4.23
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and does… read more
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"All dreams continue in the beyond."-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
"I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men."-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
"Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets."-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
3. Asleep
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she s… read more
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4. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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5. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By: Mary Roach
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more
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6. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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7. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
8. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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9. Magic for Beginners
By: Kelly Link , Shelley Jackson
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut… read more
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10. The Place of Dead Roads
By: William S. Burroughs
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard … read more
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11. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
12. The Cave
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. Nostromo
By: Joseph Conrad
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more
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14. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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15. Cold as Hell (An Áróra Investigation, #1)
By: Lilja Sigurðardóttir
3.73
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren't on speaking terms, but w… read more
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16. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
17. 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
18. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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19. The Paper Man
By: Billy O'Callaghan
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
**A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An unforgettable and sweepin… read more
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20. Reykjavík: A Crime Story
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.66
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more
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21. Dhalgren
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.77
Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more
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"What?"-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
22. Lok lok og læs
By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
3.85
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Á köldu vetrarsíðdegi fer nágranni að huga að fjölskyldu í Hvalfjarðarsveit sem ekki hefur svarað s… read more
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23. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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24. Orlam
By: P.J. Harvey
4.06
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by music… read more
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25. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
26. Koirapuisto
By: Sofi Oksanen
3.51
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Vangitseva romaani kahdesta naisesta ja Ukrainasta. Koirapuisto on kahdessa aikatasossa vyöryvä… read more
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27. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
By: Ken Krimstein
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the … read more
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"For me, in the ashes, it’s not enough to describe what happened, but to focus unforgivingly on what actually happened, to provide a road map, a game plan for how hell happens, not just in Nazi German…"-Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
28. Sigurverkið
By: Arnaldur Indriðason
3.87
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Sigurverkið er söguleg skáldsaga sem gerist á sunnanverðum Vestfjörðum og í Kaupmannahöfn á 18. öld… read more
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29. Drepsvart hraun
By: Lilja Sigurðardóttir
3.72
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Drepsvart hraun er fimlega fléttuð og hressandi spennusaga um ókannaðar lendur og óhugnanlegar fyri… read more
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30. CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
By: Sjón
3.72
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962—twenty years in the making—is Sjón's epic three-p… read more
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31. Locked In (Department Q, #10)
By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
4.04
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series comes to a thrilling conc… read more
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