Alexandria
By: Paul Kingsnorth
3.84
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A small religious community is living in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perha…
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1. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- literature
- fantasy
- fiction
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
2. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
3. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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- literature
- fantasy
- fiction
4. Swastika Night
By: Daphne Patai , Katharine Burdekin
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Nightprojects a totally male-control… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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6. The Fall of Arthur
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
The Fall of Arthurrecounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the… read more
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7. Death in Spring
By: Mercè Rodoreda , Martha Tennent
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Springis one of Merce … read more
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8. Robot
By: None
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Debiutancka powiesc mistrza fantastyki naukowej, osnuta wokol Teorii Nadistot. W swiecie rzadzonym … read more
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9. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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- novels
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
10. Guilleries
By: Ferran Garcia
3.85
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Taradell, darrers anys del segle XIX. Mentre juga a prop del riu, en Boi descobreix un rastre de sa… read more
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- fiction
11. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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- fiction
- horror
12. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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- novels
- environment
- fiction
"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
13. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
By: Elena Kostyuchenko
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more
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14. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
15. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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- literature
- 21st century
- novels
- fiction
"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
16. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
By: Aviaq Johnston
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
17. Arxipèlag
By: Guillem López
3.56
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Un estrany i inexplicable fenomen sacseja València. Petits fragments de la ciutat desapareixen i só… read more
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18. Mare
By: Isabel Del Rio Sanz (Alias: Isabel del Río)
3.50
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Per a garantir la supervivència com a espècie, la humanitat es va veure impel·lida a abandonar la T… read more
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- science fiction
- horror
19. Els fils del mar
By: Inés Macpherson
3.82
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
La Janira va créixer amb la prohibició d’apropar-se al mar. Les dones que volien tocar l’aigua, des… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
20. Alexandria
By: Paul Kingsnorth
3.84
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A small religious community is living in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perha… read more
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- post apocalyptic
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- 21st century
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21. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
