My Red Heaven
By: Lance Olsen
4.25
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters ― some historic, some inve…
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1. Lullaby
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more
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"I'm in love. So kill me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"We're all of us haunted and haunting."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people still think knowledge is power."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Haunted
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.59
Format: 419 pages, Paperback
Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing… read more
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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
"As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?"-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
"As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen"-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
4. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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5. 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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6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
7. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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8. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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9. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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10. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
11. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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12. The Box Man
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more
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13. The Silent Cry
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Bester
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling o… read more
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14. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
15. Os Cus de Judas
By: António Lobo Antunes
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Logo depois de voltar da guerra em Angola, Antonio Lobo Antunes escreve Os cus de Judas, sobre suas… read more
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16. No Nature: New and Selected Poems
By: Gary Snyder
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."… read more
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17. The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella
By: Fredrik Backman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful an… read more
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18. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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19. Middle C
By: William H. Gass
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of var… read more
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20. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
21. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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22. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
23. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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24. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
25. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
26. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with… read more
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"Three parts description . Two parts instruction . One part onomatopoeia . Mix to taste ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"My guess is that people haven’t a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
"All through that lunch I feigned interest in her cats , yes , cats , while psychically begging her to love me and interview me ."-Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
27. 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
28. 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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"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
29. Blue Lard
By: Vladimir Sorokin
3.76
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histor… read more
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30. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
31. My Red Heaven
By: Lance Olsen
4.25
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters ― some historic, some inve… read more
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