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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. Schoolgirl
By: Osamu Dazai , Allison Markin Powell , Adam L. Kern , None
4.02
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into t… read more
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"I yearned for everything long gone."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
3. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley , Steve Buccellato
4.31
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
That’s right, folks! Put down the video game controller! Skip that rehearsal for your band! Make wh… read more
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"Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
"Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?' Uh... No. The other L-Word.' ?' Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't try…"-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
4. The Virgin Suicides
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.79
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out… read more
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"She was the still point in the turning world."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
"Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look."-Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
5. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley
4.43
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
It's finally here! Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With s… read more
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"Alright, go away. I have a tiny world to save."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
"Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
"Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice."-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
"I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck"-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
6. Palo Alto
By: James Franco
3.24
Format: 0 pages,
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and… read more
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7. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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8. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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- short stories
9. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
10. Love Is a Dog from Hell
By: Charles Bukowski
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more
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11. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better! This means things are about t… read more
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12. Winter Trees
By: Sylvia Plath
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Unknown Binding
The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and f… read more
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13. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
14. Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Twilight, #1.75)
By: Stephenie Meyer
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
For the first time in a stand-alone paperback comes Stephenie Meyer's Life and Death, a compelling … read more
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15. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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16. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more
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18. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley
4.40
Format: 205 pages,
Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" a… read more
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19. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
20. I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up
By: Naoko Kodama
3.61
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Morimoto, a young professional woman in Japan, wishes her parents would stop trying to get her to m… read more
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21. The Discomfort of Evening
By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
3.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough ... … read more
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"In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"Onze dagen zullen verlengd worden, net zoals we boeken uit de bibliotheek verlengen om er langer in te kunnen verdwalen zonder kans te maken op een geldboete."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"En nu, doordat ik door mijn wimpers keek had ik ook het idee dat moeder en de veearts niet doorhadden dat ik meeluisterde, dat ik in gedachten de trekken rondom moeders mond en ogen uit kon gummen om…"-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
22. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
23. Bunny
By: Mona Awad
3.50
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more
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"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"-Mona Awad, Bunny
24. Cat Person
By: Kristen Roupenian
3.67
Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition
She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herse… read more
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25. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
26. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
By: Lana Del Rey
3.98
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more
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"Live your life like no one’s listening"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
27. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
28. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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29. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
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31. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
