The Caretaker
By: Doon Arbus
3.25
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophi…
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1. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
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3. All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
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- fiction
4. 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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5. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- novella
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6. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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7. Hotel Iris
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pooland The Housekeeper and the Profes… read more
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8. The Invisibility Cloak (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Ge Fei , None
3.24
Format: 324 pages,
An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where e… read more
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9. The World Doesn't End
By: Charles Simic
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more
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10. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
11. 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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12. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
13. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- novella
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
14. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
15. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
16. A Brief History of Living Forever
By: Jaroslav Kalfar
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In a nativist near-future America obsessed with eternal life and under the increasing threat of tec… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. River Mumma
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more
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- fiction
18. Kudos
By: Rachel Cusk
3.89
Format: 236 pages, ebook
En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more
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"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
19. Mrs. Caliban
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more
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"Drugs,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Why do you call him a monster?"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
20. 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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"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
21. Trick
By: Domenico Starnone
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more
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"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"-Domenico Starnone, Trick
22. The Possession
By: Annie Ernaux
3.75
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more
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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"-Annie Ernaux, The Possession
23. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
24. In the Act
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more
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"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act
25. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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26. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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27. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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28. 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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29. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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30. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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31. The Caretaker
By: Doon Arbus
3.25
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophi… read more
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