Why Read: Selected Writings 2001–2021
By: Will Self
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed “the most daring and del…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
By: Jane Gardam
3.94
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, … read more
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"-Laikas bėga. -Nesu tikras, kad jis žino kur."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Apie praeitį, nebent ji būtų be galo laiminga, vaikai kalbėti nelinkę."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Kai tik atsiranda merginų, egzaminų pažymiai ima blogėti. Kuo karštesnė aistra, tuo prasčiau sekasi mokslas."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
3. The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)
By: Colin Dexter
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE The case seems so … read more
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4. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- literature
5. Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
By: Thomas Wolfe , Pat Conroy
4.00
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the Riveris … read more
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6. Under Fire
By: Henri Barbusse , Robin Buss , Jay Murray Winter , None
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one o… read more
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7. The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
By: Colin Dexter
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis… read more
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8. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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9. They Came Like Swallows
By: William Maxwell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more
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10. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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11. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
By: Colin Dexter
3.84
Format: 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector … read more
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"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin."-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
"Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from un…"-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-p…"-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)
12. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
13. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
14. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- essays
- books about books
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
15. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
16. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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17. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
18. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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19. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
By: Adelle Stripe
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO… read more
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20. The Book of Mother
By: Violaine Huisman
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet … read more
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"The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it."-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
"Colava a picco, senza più legami all'infuori delle due figlie impotenti che la guardavano andare a fondo insieme ai sacchi della spazzatura pieni di vestiti e di scarpe, che si inabissavano come la s…"-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
"La mamma non conosceva la discesa morbida, la pista verde per lei non esisteva, se andava bene era rossa incendio, se andava male nero estintore. Allora non restava che vedere se si poteva andare più…"-Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother
21. Why Read: Selected Writings 2001–2021
By: Will Self
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed “the most daring and del… read more
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