Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
By: Maggie Nelson
4.49
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around …
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. The Virgin Suicides
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more
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- literary fiction
"She was the still point in the turning world."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. 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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- literary fiction
5. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
6. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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7. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- essays
8. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
9. The Gospel Singer
By: Harry Crews
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more
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10. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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11. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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- literary fiction
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
12. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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13. Just Kids
By: Patti Smith
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more
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- poetry
- art
- nonfiction
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
14. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
15. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- art
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
17. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
18. Eye Level: Poems
By: Jenny Xie
4.14
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more
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"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
19. a "Working Life"
By: Eileen Myles
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more
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20. The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life
By: Karin Roffman
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the win… read more
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21. Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
By: Maggie Nelson
4.49
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around … read more
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- literary fiction
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- feminism
- grad school
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- literary criticism
