Alice Knott
By: Blake Butler
3.52
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. A Collapse of Horses
By: Brian Evenson
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more
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- literature
- adult
- fiction
"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses
2. Die, My Love
By: Ariana Harwicz , Sarah Moses , Carolina Orloff
3.49
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
4. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
5. Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
6. The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
7. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- literature
- fiction
8. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
9. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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- novels
- fiction
10. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
11. Dark Entries
By: Robert Aickman
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more
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12. El juguete rabioso
By: Roberto Arlt
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
El juguete rabioso es la primera novela del escritor Roberto Arlt -marcadamente autobiografica- pub… read more
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13. The Ghost Notebooks
By: Ben Dolnick
3.92
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more
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14. The Face of Another
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more
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16. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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17. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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18. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
19. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- art
20. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
21. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
22. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
23. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- adult
- fiction
24. Winter Love
By: Han Suyin
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms,…"-Han Suyin, Winter Love
25. So Beautiful and Elastic
By: Gary J. Shipley
4.58
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more
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- fiction
26. Convergence Problems
By: Wole Talabi
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Convergence Problems is a new short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian … read more
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- fiction
27. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
28. Unclay
By: T.F. Powys
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Lit… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Love is heavy to carry. Though at first it settles upon its victim like a butterfly, it quickly changes to lead."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
"Her laughter was everywhere, and at night her eyes shone in the sky. The air he breathed was Susie; whatever he touched was her too."-T.F. Powys, Unclay
29. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Alice Knott
By: Blake Butler
3.52
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
From the ingenious mind of a language a wildly inventive novel about art, surveillance, our age of… read more
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- literary fiction
- art
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
