The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
By: Anaïs Nin
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous …
Want to Read $ 12.99"I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult."-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
"I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult."-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
"What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts."-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
"What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts."-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. The Association of Small Bombs
By: Karan Mahajan
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2016 When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi scho… read more
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"Yes, madam,"-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"The roots of shame run deep."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"No action is safe from meaning."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"Silence is the small man’s only defense."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
6. 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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7. Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
By: Kathy Acker
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
This volume brings together three of the postmodern punkster's earliest novels, all originally publ… read more
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8. The Malady of Death
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more
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9. The Nun
By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more
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10. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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11. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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12. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
By: Emil Ferris
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more
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13. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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15. Journal of a Solitude
By: May Sarton
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more
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16. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
17. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… 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. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
20. In the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
3.50
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A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more
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21. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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22. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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23. 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
24. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
25. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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26. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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27. Be Here Now
By: Ram Dass
4.33
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more
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"Be here now."-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"Be here, now!"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
28. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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29. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
By: Virginia Woolf
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more
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"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
30. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
31. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
By: Anaïs Nin
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous … read more
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- nonfiction
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"I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult."-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
"What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings…"-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
"My image of others has gone through a thousand transformations, from idealization to total rejection, to re-creation and rescue of a totally new self. As I changed, my perspective changed. The theme …"-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
