Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (A Life of Calder)
By: Jed Perl
4.16
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander an authoritative a…
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1. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
By: Ross King
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more
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2. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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3. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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4. A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932 (Vol 3)
By: John Richardson
4.33
Format: 288 pages,
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson h… read more
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5. All My Puny Sorrows
By: Miriam Toews
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poigna… read more
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6. The Moving Target
By: Ross Macdonald
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more
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7. The Essential Rumi
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more
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8. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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9. The English Patient
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more
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10. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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11. The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
By: Jack E. Davis
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind… read more
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12. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
13. 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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"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
14. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
15. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
16. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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17. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
By: Sue Prideaux
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more
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18. A Life of Picasso, Vol. 2: The Painter of Modern Life, 1907-1917
By: John Richardson
4.40
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive re… read more
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19. A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943
By: John Richardson
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spectacular fourth volume of Picasso's life set in Paris, Normandy, and Barcelona during the Sp… read more
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20. Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (A Life of Calder)
By: Jed Perl
4.16
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander an authoritative a… read more
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21. Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
By: Neil Baldwin
3.73
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the tw… read more
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