The Revisionist
By: Miranda Mellis
4.20
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Fiction. The title character of THE REVISIONIST conducts covert surveillance on a city whose inhabi…
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1. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1)
By: Edward Rutherfurd
3.73
Format: None pages,
Brilliantly weaving impeccable historical research with stirring storytelling, Edward Rutherfurd ex… read more
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- fiction
4. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
5. Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
By: Eileen Myles
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
"All the lesbian intimacy you've yet to find on OKCupid can be found in this book." -- Lambda Liter… read more
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- poetry
- novels
- fiction
6. 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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- literature
- fiction
7. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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- literature
- dystopia
- fiction
- novels
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
8. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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9. The Magus
By: John Fowles
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved… read more
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10. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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12. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
13. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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14. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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15. Delta of Venus
By: Anaïs Nin
4.14
Format: None pages,
In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more
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16. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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17. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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18. The Blind Owl
By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello
3.97
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس میکردم."-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
19. The Lacuna
By: Barbara Kingsolver
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… 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. Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
By: Octavio Paz , Eliot Weinberger
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is t… read more
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22. 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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23. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
24. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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25. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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- fiction
26. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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- poetry
- magical realism
- fiction
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
27. Forever
By: Thomas Moore
4.44
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more
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- fiction
28. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
29. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
By: Jean Rhys
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” ―V. S. Naipaul, New York Review… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"But what if it were heaven when she got there?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"She found pleasure in memories, as an old woman might have done."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"Darling.' She said 'darling' with her lips, but her heart was dead."-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
"The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?"-Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
30. The Revisionist
By: Miranda Mellis
4.20
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Fiction. The title character of THE REVISIONIST conducts covert surveillance on a city whose inhabi… read more
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- novels
31. Revelations
By: Ruben Quesada
4.79
Format: 38 pages, Paperback
With an underlying current of devotion and understanding of the ways we survive both beauty and dif… read more
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