Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses
By: Ronald Johnson
4.49
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Ronald Johnson's Underground Classic of Visionary and Queer Poetry Ronald Johnson's underground cla…
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1. The Bridge
By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler
4.08
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more
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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."-Hart Crane, The Bridge
"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"-Hart Crane, The Bridge
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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4. Regarde les lumières mon amour
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more
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5. Macunaima
By: Mário de Andrade , None
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precurs… read more
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6. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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7. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
8. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
9. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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10. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
12. H of H Playbook
By: Anne Carson
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox ), H of H Playbook is a… read more
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"M: Fantasy just makes me hungrier."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"What's it like to wear an eternal Olympian overall held up by the burning straps of mortal shortfall?"-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"aH of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
13. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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15. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
16. 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
17. I Remain in Darkness
By: Annie Ernaux
3.99
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more
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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness
18. 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
19. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
20. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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21. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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22. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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23. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
By: Ian Penman
4.02
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more
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"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
24. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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25. a "Working Life"
By: Eileen Myles
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more
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26. My Pinup
By: Hilton Als
3.66
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hilton Als distills into one c… read more
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27. Wild Geese
By: Soula Emmanuel
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more
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"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese
28. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
By: C.A. Conrad
4.40
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more
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29. Awake
By: Harald Voetmann
3.64
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dict… read more
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"I certainly do not believe that life is so valuable it must be prolonged at all costs. You who are of the opposite opinion will die nonetheless, even if your life has been prolonged by perverse acts …"-Harald Voetmann, Awake
"Sex can be either play or labor, depending on the participant's role and reasons for taking part, but as we have eliminated the category of play, there is only one option left. Sexual activity can on…"-Harald Voetmann, Awake
30. The Hermit
By: Lucy Ives
4.15
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Poetry. THE HERMIT is a catalog of thoughts concerning art and experience. Layering fragments of dr… read more
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31. Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses
By: Ronald Johnson
4.49
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Ronald Johnson's Underground Classic of Visionary and Queer Poetry Ronald Johnson's underground cla… read more
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