Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.05
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly betw…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literature
- classics
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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- literature
- classics
4. The Insulted and Humiliated
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshado… read more
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- literature
- classics
5. Sylvia
By: Diane Johnson , Leonard Michaels
3.78
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the live… read more
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"La peggiore notizia – se è pubblicata su un giornale – con ogni probabilità non è capitata a chi legge, e offre un collegamento di rassicurante normalità con la vita quotidiana."-Diane Johnson, Sylvia
6. Our Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
3.70
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, co… read more
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7. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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- literature
- classics
"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
8. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
- psychology
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
9. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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10. Gilded Needles
By: Michael McDowell
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunke… read more
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11. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- essays
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
12. Chi dice e chi tace
By: Chiara Valerio
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more
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13. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
14. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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- literature
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
15. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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16. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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17. Convalescenza
By: Han Kang
3.77
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Una donna cerca risposta agli interrogativi che la morte della sorella ha lasciato insoluti: perché… read more
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18. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
By: Calvin Trillin
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- essays
19. I figli sono finiti
By: Walter Siti
3.55
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Per un gioco del caso, due esseri umani molto diversi si trovano a essere dirimpettai in una palazz… read more
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20. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
By: Vivian Gornick
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate rea… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- books about books
- literary criticism
"Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo"."-Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
"Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making."-Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
21. Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
4.05
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly betw… read more
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