Invasion of the Space Invaders
By: Martin Amis
3.31
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 19…
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1. Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
By: Tim Harford
3.92
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a l… read more
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"Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be."-Tim Harford, Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
"A third lesson is to constantly remind yourself of the benefits of tension, which can be easy to forget when all you want is a quiet life."-Tim Harford, Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
2. Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
By: Erin Hunter
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by … read more
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"You put quite a fight for a tame kitty"-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
"follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)"-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
"You cannot live with a paw in each world."-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
"You can not live with a paw in each world."-Erin Hunter, Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
3. Locus Solus
By: Raymond Roussel
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, thi… read more
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- literature
4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- nonfiction
5. On Writing
By: Charles Bukowski
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our m… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
6. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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- literature
7. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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8. Rocannon's World
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more
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9. Gyo, Vol. 2
By: Junji Ito
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Horrifying Conclusion... Trapped on an island filled with the stench of mutating bodies, can t… read more
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10. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
By: Joe Haldeman
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more
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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
11. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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12. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)
By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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13. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more
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14. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
15. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
16. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- literature
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
17. Basketful of Heads
By: Joe Hill
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
June Branch visits her boyfriend, Liam, on Brody Island for a relaxing last weekend of summer. Afte… read more
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18. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
19. 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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- literature
"[...] 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
20. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
21. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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22. Dhalgren
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.77
Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more
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"What?"-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
23. I Wished
By: Dennis Cooper
3.95
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more
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"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"-Dennis Cooper, I Wished
24. El pasado anda atrás de nosotros
By: Juan Pablo Villalobos
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Una novela disparatada e inquietante sobre la familia, México y el empeño de escabullirse de la rea… read more
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25. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 4: The Tempest
By: Alan Moore
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been buildi… read more
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26. 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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27. Invasion of the Space Invaders
By: Martin Amis
3.31
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 19… read more
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