The Sacraments of Desire: Poems
By: Linda Gregg
4.20
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
4. The End of Beauty
By: Jorie Graham
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems by "a poet of large ambitions and reckless music. Ms. Graham writes with a me… read more
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5. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
6. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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7. Asleep
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she s… read more
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8. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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9. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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10. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
11. White Girls
By: Hilton Als
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Womenfourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker… read more
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12. Pierre Reverdy
By: John Ashbery , Lydia Davis , Kenneth Rexroth , Pierre Reverdy , Mary Ann Caws
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens a… read more
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13. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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15. Coming Through Slaughter
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2,000 prostitutes, 70 p… 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. My Life and My Life in the Nineties
By: Lyn Hejinian
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garne… read more
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18. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
19. 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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20. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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21. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
22. Is Mother Dead
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.80
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more
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"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
23. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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24. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
25. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
26. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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27. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
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"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
28. A Treatise on Stars
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen… read more
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29. Laura's Desires
By: Laura Henriksen
4.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Laura’s Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cult… read more
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30. A Symmetry: Poems
By: Ari Banias
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202… read more
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31. The Sacraments of Desire: Poems
By: Linda Gregg
4.20
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
"The blinding intensity of Ms. Gregg's lines stains the reader's psyche the way lightning or hearta… read more
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