Your Lover Just Called
By: John Updike
3.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the…
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1. 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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- fiction
"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
"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
"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
2. Shopgirl
By: Steve Martin
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves no… read more
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- fiction
3. Over Easy
By: Mimi Pond
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. Over Easyis a brilliant … read more
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4. Mr. Nice
By: Howard Marks
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more
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5. La Tresse
By: Laetitia Colombani
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Smita, Julia, Sarah. Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Trois chemins que rien ne destine … read more
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- fiction
6. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
By: Tom Robbins
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a… read more
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- fiction
7. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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- fiction
8. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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9. Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more
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10. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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11. Tipping the Velvet
By: Sarah Waters
4.05
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersona… read more
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- fiction
"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
12. Anything Is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.20
Format: None pages,
Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more
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13. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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14. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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15. Dark Tales
By: Shirley Jackson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more
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16. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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17. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
18. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
21. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- fiction
22. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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23. I'm a Narwhal (Little Golden Book)
By: Mallory Loehr
4.29
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the author and illustrator of I'M A UNICORN comes a Little Golden Book all about an adorable n… read more
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24. James Acaster’s Findings: A BBC Radio Comedy Show
By: James Acaster
None
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
You may know him from his Netflix series Repertoire, his podcast Off Menu or James Acaster's Perfec… read more
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25. Your Lover Just Called
By: John Updike
3.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
26. The Power of Negative Thinking
By: Oliver Burkeman
3.92
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
To achieve any major life goal, conventional wisdom tells us we must think positively. Picture your… read more
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