Presidio
By: Randy Kennedy
3.57
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunn…
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1. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
By: John Fante
4.10
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
"Mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric.” —The Times John Fante's first published nov… read more
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"A fellow can't be so bad if he loves a girl as good as you."-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
"Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching."-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
"Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He a…"-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
" Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk in a low voice? Everybody in the neighborhood knew everything that …"-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
2. Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
By: Evan S. Connell
4.00
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he s… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds."-Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
"A leaf flattened itself against the window beside his head and leaped away into the darkness, and a feeling of profound despair came over him because everything he had done was useless. All that he b…"-Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
3. Flores
By: Afonso Cruz
4.04
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Um homem sofre desmesuradamente com as notícias que lê nos jornais, com todas as tragédias humanas … read more
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"Cheira tudo a flores, o fim das coisas cheira a flores, não é a esgoto e a podre."-Afonso Cruz, Flores
"A solidão deve ser a única emoção que não conseguimos partilhar, se o fizermos ela desaparece."-Afonso Cruz, Flores
"cada homem é um universo, se não fosse não caberia tanto sofrimento dentro da cabeça de cada um."-Afonso Cruz, Flores
"E disse ainda que, na escola, quando lhe perguntavam onde tinha nascido, respondia apontando para o horizonte."-Afonso Cruz, Flores
4. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
5. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
6. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
7. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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8. The Locals
By: Jonathan Dee
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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9. Bad Monkey
By: Carl Hiaasen
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- crime
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10. She Rides Shotgun
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more
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11. The Ambassadors
By: Henry James , Harry Levin
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more
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12. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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- fiction
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
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14. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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- fiction
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
15. The Man From St. Petersburg
By: Ken Follett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manip… read more
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16. Esteiros
By: Soeiro Pereira Gomes
3.83
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Gineto, Gaitinhas, Malesso, Maquineta, tantos outros, sao os operarios-meninos dos telhais a beira … read more
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17. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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18. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
19. Gangland
By: Chuck Hogan
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- suspense
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- mystery
- thriller
- crime
20. A História de Roma
By: Joana Bértholo
4.04
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Duas pessoas que foram outrora um casal encontram-se passados dez anos de se separarem. Ela, lisboe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
21. Everybody Knows
By: Jordan Harper
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more
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"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows
22. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
By: Masaji Ishikawa
4.28
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the wo… read more
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"I want to give this food to my family in North Korea. But I can’t. So I entrust it to the seagulls. And in my heart, they carry it off to my family. And I weep."-Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
23. A Noite
By: José Saramago
4.05
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
«A Noite, a primeira obra dramática de Saramago que o escritor dedica a Luzia Maria Martins, a pess… read more
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24. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
25. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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- literary fiction
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26. A Cicatriz
By: Maria Francisca Gama
4.38
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
«Éramos felizes, verdadeiros camaradas e a âncora um do outro. Um dia o nosso barco afundou-se e ne… read more
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27. Antes do 25 de Abril: Era Proibido
By: António Costa Santos
4.26
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Já imaginou viver num país onde: tem de possuir uma licença do Estado para usar um isqueiro? um… read more
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28. Não Há Pássaros Aqui (Portuguese Edition)
By: Victor Vidal
3.97
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Ana recebe um telefonema de uma vizinha da mãe informando que Andrea desapareceu na sequência de um… read more
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29. 25 de Abril – No Princípio Era o Verbo
By: Manuel S. Fonseca
3.90
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Festa. Este livro festeja os 50 anos do dia que derrubou uma ditadura de 48 anos. O 25 de Abril, ca… read more
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30. Presidio
By: Randy Kennedy
3.57
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunn… read more
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31. Como sobreviver depois da morte
By: André Canhoto Costa
3.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Em Sulfúreo, aldeia prestes a ser engolida por uma exploração de volfrâmio, os vivos não morrem e o… read more
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