Lost in Translation (BFI Film Classics)
By: Suzanne Ferriss
4.15
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencin…
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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3. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
By: Stephen King
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Kin… read more
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4. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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5. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
By: Clive Barker , Neil Gaiman , Steve Parkhouse , Chris Bachalo , Michael Zulli , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Todd Klein
4.43
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A being who has existed since the beginning of the universe, Dream of the Endless rules over the re… read more
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"And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
6. Hollywood Babylon
By: Kenneth Anger
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hollywood Babylonwas originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
9. Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6)
By: Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Bryan Talbot , Kent Williams , P. Craig Russell , Stan Woch , Jill Thompson , Shawn McManus , Duncan Eagleson , Todd Klein
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fables & Reflections (1993) is the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.… read more
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10. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
By: Neil Gaiman , Matt Wagner , Harlan Ellison , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , P. Craig Russell , Dick Giordano , Todd Klein , Kelley Jones , George Pratt
4.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of … read more
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"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
"[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
11. Dream Country (The Sandman #3)
By: Neil Gaiman , Malcolm Jones III , Colleen Doran , Charles Vess , Steve Erickson , Kelley Jones
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The third volume of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of… read more
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12. A Game of You (The Sandman #5)
By: Neil Gaiman , Bryan Talbot , Colleen Doran , Stan Woch , Dick Giordano , Shawn McManus , Todd Klein , George Pratt
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking sev… read more
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13. 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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14. The Temple of Dawn
By: Yukio Mishima , E. Dale Saunders , Cecilia Segawa Seigle
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is gr… read more
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15. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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16. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
17. Runaway Horses
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns … read more
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18. 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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19. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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20. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
21. 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)
22. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
23. For You and Only You (You, #4)
By: Caroline Kepnes
3.31
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he's writing them. And he's off to a … read more
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"You're a Goodreads girl."-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
"I don't kill women, I love them!"-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
"His life is want-to, not have-to."-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
"Am I losing you? Don't you think I'm smart? Funny?"-Caroline Kepnes, For You and Only You (You, #4)
24. 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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- nonfiction
- film
25. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
26. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
27. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
28. 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
29. Archive
By: Sofia Coppola
4.84
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential c… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
30. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
By: Karina Longworth
4.08
Format: 576 pages, ebook
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings o… read more
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- film
31. Lost in Translation (BFI Film Classics)
By: Suzanne Ferriss
4.15
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencin… read more
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