Bitten by the Tarantula and Other Writing
By: Julian Maclaren-Ross
3.94
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This collection of Julian MacLaren-Ross's work is a mix of short and longer fiction, plus journalis…
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1. A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jonathan Lethem , L.J. Davis
3.60
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life , is a blistering black comedy about the American quest … read more
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- fiction
2. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
By: Laird Koenig
3.90
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination… read more
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- fiction
"My father says most people who say they like poetry only pretend to like it.' 'I guess you like it?' 'I love it very much.' Her long hair swirled as she shook her head to correct herself. That's redu…"-Laird Koenig, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- fiction
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. Delirio
By: Laura Restrepo
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un hombre regresa a casa despues de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa ha enloque… read more
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- fiction
5. El Diego: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Footballer
By: Diego Armando Maradona
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of hi… read more
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7. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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- fiction
8. The Heaven of Animals: Stories
By: David James Poissant
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Amazon's Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution's 9 … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. Il giorno della civetta
By: Leonardo Sciascia
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more
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- fiction
10. The House of Souls
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages,
Four of Machen's classic novellas (A Fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
11. Fútbol. Storie di calcio
By: Angelo Morino , Glauco Felici , Osvaldo Soriano , Paolo Collo
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Centravanti di buone speranze - <>-, fino a che la carriera calcistica non gli viene stroncata da u… read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. The Hot Spot
By: Charles Williams
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more
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15. El túnel
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more
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16. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
By: Thomas de Quincey
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhea… read more
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17. The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more
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"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
18. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
19. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
20. Sobre héroes y tumbas
By: None
4.79
Format: None pages,
Esta es la segunda novela de Ernesto Sabato, que profundiza la senda iniciada por El tunel. Una obr… read more
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21. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- short stories
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
22. Literatura infantil
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.25
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more
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- fiction
"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
23. Poeta chileno
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.39
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
24. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
25. Le dedico mi silencio
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
3.55
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA La historia de un hombre que soñó… read more
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26. La expulsión de lo distinto
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.02
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
Los tiempos en los que existía el otro han pasado. El otro como amigo, el otro como infierno, el ot… read more
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"Según Alain Ehrenberg, el éxito de la depresión se basa en la pérdida de la relación con el conflicto. La actual cultura del rendimiento y la optimización no tolera que se invierta trabajo en un conf…"-Byung-Chul Han, La expulsión de lo distinto
"El terror de lo igual alcanza hoy a todos los ámbitos vitales. Viajamos por todas partes sin tener ninguna experiencia. Uno se entera de todo sin adquirir ningún conocimiento. Se ansían vivencias y e…"-Byung-Chul Han, La expulsión de lo distinto
27. Bitten by the Tarantula and Other Writing
By: Julian Maclaren-Ross
3.94
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This collection of Julian MacLaren-Ross's work is a mix of short and longer fiction, plus journalis… read more
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28. El ojo en la mira
By: Diamela Eltit
4.15
Format: 101 pages, ebook
Sin cosmética. Una mujer se mira en las bibliotecas de su vida a lo largo del tiempo. Una mujer de … read more
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29. Borderline Carlito
By: Carlos Busqued
4.09
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro es una muestra del imaginario de Carlos Busqued. Constituido por una selección de posteo… read more
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30. Clases de literatura rusa (Spanish Edition)
By: Sylvia Iparraguirre
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Sylvia Iparraguirre, escritora, ensayista y docente, nos ofrece sus Clases de literatura rusa clási… read more
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31. Avellaneda profana (Lector&s nº 15) (Spanish Edition)
By: Luis Gusmán
3.43
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
En el barrio de la infancia, los amores y los libros son intensos, la lectura no es un oficio módic… read more
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