Fictional Worlds
By: Thomas G. Pavel
3.80
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quix…
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1. Erec and Enide
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, t… read more
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"Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner."-Chrétien de Troyes, Erec and Enide
2. Fever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp
3.72
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more
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"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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4. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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6. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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- nonfiction
7. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
8. Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
By: Jacques Le Goff
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in … read more
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9. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
10. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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11. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation fr… read more
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12. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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13. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
14. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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15. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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16. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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17. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
18. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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19. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction
By: Patricia Waugh
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Metaficationfocuses on the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the po… read more
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20. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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21. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
22. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
23. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
24. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
25. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
26. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
27. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
28. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
29. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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30. Ten Planets: Stories
By: Yuri Herrera
3.54
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vul… read more
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31. Fictional Worlds
By: Thomas G. Pavel
3.80
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quix… read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
- writing
- literary criticism
