The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
By: Ring Lardner
4.04
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five selections by the modern writer illustrate his ability to depict diverse aspects of tur…
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1. Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
By: Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman
3.97
Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback
As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.… read more
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"You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment"-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
By: Nathanael West
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more
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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
3. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more
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- literature
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- humor
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"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
4. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
6. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
8. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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- fiction
9. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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10. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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- the united states of america
"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
11. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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- fiction
12. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
13. Nine Stories
By: J.D. Salinger
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more
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14. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
By: Katherine Anne Porter
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
15. Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1)
By: Susan Cooper
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house t… read more
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16. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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17. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
18. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
By: Pearl S. Buck
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more
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19. The Short Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, "Up in Michigan." Seventeen… read more
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20. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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21. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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- fiction
"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
22. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
By: Douglas Adams
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, t… read more
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23. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #15)
By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Peng… read more
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24. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
By: Matsuo Bashō , None
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… read more
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25. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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26. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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27. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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- literary fiction
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- the united states of america
"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
28. Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
By: Scott Lynch
4.25
Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition
Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007. After a brutal b… read more
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"Ah,"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"Mizzenmast,"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
"You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!"-Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
29. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
30. Birds of Maine
By: Michael DeForge
4.25
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more
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31. The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
By: Ring Lardner
4.04
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five selections by the modern writer illustrate his ability to depict diverse aspects of tur… read more
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