Yi Sang: Selected Works
By: Yi Sang
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the liter…
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1. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
By: Vladimir Mayakovsky , Max Hayward , None
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career―from the earliest pre-revolutionary ly… read more
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"Have you seen a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Then there's amortization, the deadliest of all; amortization of the heart and soul."-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of y…"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
"Usher: Why do you play only on the black keys [of the piano]? I suppose you think black is good enough for the proletariat. You play on all the keys only for the bourgeoisie, is that it? Oleg Bard: P…"-Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
2. 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
3. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more
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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
4. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
5. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
6. Mandarins: Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Charles De Wolf
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ryunosuke Akutagawa blends a sense of sad inevitability with subtle irony. Reflective and often hum… read more
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7. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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9. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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10. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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11. Last Words from Montmartre
By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich
2.77
Format: 130 pages,
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more
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12. House of Leaves
By: Mark Z. Danielewski
4.09
Format: 710 pages, Paperback
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more
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"I must read. I must read. I must read."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
13. The Complete Stories
By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more
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14. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
15. The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
By: Jane Hirshfield , Izumi Shikibu , Mariko Aratani , Ono no Komachi
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
These translated poems were written by two ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and… read more
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16. Nowhere to Be Found
By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more
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17. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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18. 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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- poetry
- classics
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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
19. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
20. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
21. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
22. 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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23. Territory of Light
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.59
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
24. 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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- short stories
- essays
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- asian literature
"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
25. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
26. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir
By: Ai Weiwei
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more
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27. Dandelions
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.46
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions—exploring love and madness—is Kawabata’s final nov… read more
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- asian literature
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"The bonds between men and women predate language, and while the words we have used to express those ties may have grown exceptionally subtle and refined since language first arose, they are still jus…"-Yasunari Kawabata, Dandelions
28. Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
By: Samuel Beckett
4.06
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their … read more
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- fiction
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- short stories
29. Untold Night and Day
By: Bae Suah
3.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more
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"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
30. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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31. Yi Sang: Selected Works
By: Yi Sang
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the liter… read more
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