Tomb(e) (The French List)
By: Hélène Cixous
3.91
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
“In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all s…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
3. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
4. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
5. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
By: Anne Carson
4.18
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memor… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
"Everything is a naked thought that strikes."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
6. Men in the Off Hours
By: Anne Carson
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent… read more
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"As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you."-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
" détails All the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées ."-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
"What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase. I don't know. I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache, no help there."-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
"In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is …"-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
7. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
8. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more
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10. The Body Artist
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other A… read more
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11. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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12. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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13. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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14. Garments Against Women
By: Anne Boyer
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature al… read more
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- philosophy
15. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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16. The Apple in the Dark
By: Clarice Lispector
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more
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17. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
By: Elaine Scarry
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original st… read more
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19. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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- france
"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
20. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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21. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
22. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
23. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
24. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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25. 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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- philosophy
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"...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
26. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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- philosophy
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
27. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
28. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
29. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
30. Tomb(e) (The French List)
By: Hélène Cixous
3.91
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
“In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all s… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- france
- fiction
31. Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
By: Julietta Singh
4.48
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In Unthinking Mastery Julietta Singh challenges a core, fraught dimension of geopolitical, cultural… read more
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