Walter Winchell
By: Michael Herr
3.20
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Dramatizes the life of the influential newspaper columnist, including his early career in vaudeville
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. 334
By: Thomas M. Disch
3.64
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, pas… read more
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"The end of the world. Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to bother you. You can relax. …"-Thomas M. Disch, 334
3. Angels on Toast
By: Dawn Powell
3.84
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Two dubious businessmen attempt to outwit their wives, mistresses, and hangers-on read more
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4. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
5. Ape and Essence
By: Aldous Huxley
3.74
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a c… read more
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"The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much."-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
"It is a scene of Satyrs and Nymphs, of pursuits and captures, provocative resistances followed by the enthusiastic surrender of lips to bearded lips, of panting bosoms to the impatience of rough hand…"-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
"- Da, e lucru îngrozitor să cazi în mâinile răului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreabă doctorul Poole, de ce continuați să-L venerați? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mârăie?Ca să câștigi un moment…"-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
6. After Dark, My Sweet
By: Jim Thompson
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping fro… read more
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7. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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8. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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9. A Way of Life, Like Any Other
By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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11. Make Room! Make Room!
By: Harry Harrison
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system-… read more
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12. The Burnt Orange Heresy
By: Charles Willeford
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talki… read more
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13. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
14. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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15. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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16. The Prestige
By: Christopher Priest
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more
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17. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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18. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
19. Bill, the Galactic Hero (Bill, #1)
By: Harry Harrison
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-… read more
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20. Golden Calf
By: Ilya Ilf , Yevgeny Petrov
2.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Roman zamechatel'nykh sovetskikh satirikov I.Il'fa i E.Petrova "Zolotoi telenok" prodolzhaet temu o… read more
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21. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
By: Hunter S. Thompson
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more
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22. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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23. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
24. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
25. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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26. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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27. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
By: Rick Perlstein
4.34
Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover
A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more
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28. The N'Gustro Affair
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.51
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadisti… read more
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29. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
By: Mike Davis
4.38
Format: 1051 pages, Kindle Edition
A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Six… read more
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30. El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord
By: Noah Hurowitz
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Gu… read more
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31. Walter Winchell
By: Michael Herr
3.20
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
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