The Lost Writings
By: Franz Kafka
3.98
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Mi…
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1. Fragments
By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton
4.18
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more
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- classics
"All is flux"-James Hillman, Fragments
"Character is destiny"-James Hillman, Fragments
"I went in search of myself."-James Hillman, Fragments
"Man's character is his fate."-James Hillman, Fragments
2. Fox 8
By: George Saunders
4.12
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."-George Saunders, Fox 8
"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"-George Saunders, Fox 8
3. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
- novels
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
4. Nights as Day, Days as Night
By: Michel Leiris
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Nights as Day is a diary of over a hundred short dreams composed over the four decades. (...) By tr… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
5. Story of O (Story of O #1)
By: Pauline Réage , Sabine d'Estree
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Story of O relates the progressive willful debasement of a young and beautiful Parisian fashion… read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
7. On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
By: Dan Savage , Charles Kaiser , Merle Miller
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Differentis a pioneering and thought-provokin… read more
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- classics
8. Letters to a Young Muslim
By: Omar Saif Ghobash
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
"In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable … read more
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9. The Walk
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Walser's alternate, preferred version of his most famous tale. A pseudo-biographical "stroll" throu… read more
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- german literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
10. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
11. 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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- classics
12. Moise and the World of Reason
By: Tennessee Williams
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The publication of a major work of fiction by Tennessee Williams - the most gifted playwright and p… read more
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- classics
- fiction
13. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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- literature
- classics
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
14. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"…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
15. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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16. The Subterraneans
By: Jack Kerouac
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road,… read more
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17. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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18. Bruges-La-Morte
By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more
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19. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
20. Tiepolo Blue
By: James Cahill
3.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ben turns and grins ironically. ‘When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren’t measu… read more
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- fiction
21. Dragon Palace
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 From the bestselling author of Strange Weather i… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
22. The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
By: Chūya Nakahara
4.30
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Song of the Sheep (to Yasuhara Yoshihiro) III She trusted me completely, confided in me completely, her heart was the colour of an orange; that tenderness did not overflow, nor did it cringe away, li…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Image (II) Over every extinguished past, tears gush out. The castle wall is desiccated; the wind blows. The grass waves; over the hills, across the fields no rest; white angels countenances do not ap…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Quietude Nothing visits me; my heart is quiet. It was Sunday’s roofed school paths, - everyone gone to the meadow. The floorboards have a cold shine, small birds are singing in the garden. The half-s…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Lost Hope Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s blazing hope. Like a summer night’s star, even now visible far off in the sky, even now. Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s dreams and h…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
23. Riot Baby
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more
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- fiction
"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
24. 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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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
25. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
By: Lore Segal
3.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more
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- literary fiction
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26. Allein
By: Daniel Schreiber
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal… read more
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- german literature
"Doch der springende Punkt all dieser Serien, das, worauf sie immer zusteuern, wird leicht übersehen: Sie enden damit, dass ausnahmslos alle ihrer Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten Partnerinnen und P…"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Ich glaube, dass Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller so gerne wandern gehen, weil es ein gutes Mittel gegen die dunklen Zustände ist, die einen, ob man es will oder nicht, bei der einsamen Arbeit …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Das Glück der Freundschaft besteht gerade nicht in ihrem Ideal. Es stellt sich nicht ein, wenn lediglich die eigenen Bedürfnisse nach der Aufmerksamkeit anderer Menschen erfüllt werden, wenn wir sie …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
"Bei Durchblättern von Büchern, die ich immer wieder zur Hand nehme, stoße ich auf Unterstreichungen wie diese: »Heute, so scheint es ihm, schreibt er mehr aus einer freien Position heraus. … Er sagt …"-Daniel Schreiber, Allein
27. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
28. Goodbye
By: Osamu Dazai
3.67
Format: 36 pages, ebook
The war is over and life is returning to normal. A man must say goodbye to his ten or so lovers. Ho… read more
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- fiction
29. Concerning the Future of Souls
By: Joy Williams
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
30. The Lost Writings
By: Franz Kafka
3.98
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Mi… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- czech literature
- short stories
- fiction
- novels
31. Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe
By: Ken Krimstein
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic b… read more
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