Double Bird
By: Bud Smith
4.62
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories by Bud Smith. Odd little ducks ... A man finds a seashell and it tells him …
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
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 Lost Scrapbook
By: Evan Dara
4.30
Format: 476 pages, Paperback
It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and… read more
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4. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
5. The Flamethrowers
By: Rachel Kushner
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more
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6. Flee
By: Evan Dara
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
The third novel by Evan Dara In which a New England town does just that. read more
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7. Time Out of Joint
By: Philip K. Dick
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Time Out of Jointis Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the wo… read more
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8. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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9. The Sarah Book
By: Scott McClanahan
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more
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10. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Molly Brodak
4.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so ho… read more
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11. Easy Chain
By: Evan Dara
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
--So what's the book about? --It about this British guy who goes to The University of Chicago? --Na… read more
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12. Dream Story
By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies
3.76
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more
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"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story
13. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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14. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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15. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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16. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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17. Eileen
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more
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18. We Had to Remove This Post
By: Hanna Bervoets
2.93
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more
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- short stories
"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
19. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
20. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
21. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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22. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
23. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
24. Duplex
By: Mike Nagel
4.60
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more
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25. Birds Aren't Real
By: D.T. Robbins
4.58
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Meeting minutes from a Satanic cult. Werewolves with orgasmic origins. Homemade puzzles made from h… read more
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26. Letter to Survivors
By: Gébé
3.29
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In the blasted ruins of what was once a picture-perfect suburb, nothing stirs—except the postman. C… read more
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27. Opioid, Indiana
By: Brian Allen Carr
3.34
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searc… read more
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28. Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins
By: Evan Dara
4.15
Format: 91 pages, ebook
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29. Let the World Have You
By: Mikko Harvey
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Mikko Harvey’s new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In… read more
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30. Double Bird
By: Bud Smith
4.62
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories by Bud Smith. Odd little ducks ... A man finds a seashell and it tells him … read more
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31. Watertown
By: Dan Eastman
4.80
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
'Watertown' is a book of poems about traffic accidents, dive bars, drunk dads, Wrestlemania XIV, pe… read more
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