17 Top fiction books like The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac

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The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings

By: Jack Kerouac

4.12

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a…

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1. Kaddish and Other Poems

By: Allen Ginsberg

4.20

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of m… read more

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"The weight of the world is love."

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"What came is gone forever every time"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

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2. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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3. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

By: Paul Theroux

3.89

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more

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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

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4. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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5. Birthday Letters

By: Ted Hughes

3.90

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more

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"What happened casually remains -"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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6. Let it Come Down

By: Paul Bowles

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller… read more

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7. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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8. The Captain's Verses

By: Pablo Neruda , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of P… read more

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9. The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more

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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

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10. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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11. Lyrical and Critical Essays

By: Albert Camus , Philip Thody , Ellen Conroy Kennedy

4.15

Format: 275 pages,

'The literary output of Albert Camus was exceptionally concentrated and well organized, so that eac… read more

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  • essays
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12. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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13. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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14. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

By: Jimmy Carter

4.48

Format: 252 pages,

Following his #1 New York Timesbestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner o… read more

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15. The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

By: Charles Bukowski , Robert Crumb

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Buk… read more

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16. First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

By: Neal Cassady

4.13

Format: 277 pages,

Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infa… read more

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17. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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18. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

19. Love Is a Dog from Hell

By: Charles Bukowski

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more

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20. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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21. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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23. Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

By: Brenda Knight

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

The Beat Generation created an American revolution in literature and culture that transformed the m… read more

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24. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

By: Charles Bukowski

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gamblin… read more

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25. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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26. The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

4.28

Format: None pages, Leather Bound

The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more

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27. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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28. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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29. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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30. Bukowski, A Life: The Centennial Edition

By: Neeli Cherkovski

3.80

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

The life of Charles Bukowski―laureate of lowlife Los Angeles―a novelist and poet who wrote as he li… read more

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31. The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings

By: Jack Kerouac

4.12

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a… read more

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14 must-read fiction books like A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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