The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
By: Sarah Chihaya
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audien…
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1. La frantumaglia
By: Elena Ferrante
4.09
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Questo libro ci porta nel laboratorio di Elena Ferrante, ci permette di lanciare uno sguardo dentro… read more
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"No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta"-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia
"Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina."-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia
"I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman."-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia
"Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly."-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's … read more
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- italy
4. 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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5. Los ríos profundos
By: مصطفی مفیدی , José María Arguedas
3.78
Format: 377 pages,
Jose Maria Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural su… read more
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6. Bestiario
By: Julio Cortázar
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more
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7. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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8. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
9. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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10. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L… read more
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11. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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12. In Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more
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13. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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14. My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale #1)
By: Elena Ferrante
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, int… read more
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15. 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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16. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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17. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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18. The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elen… read more
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19. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
20. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
21. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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22. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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23. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
24. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
25. Little Eyes
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of… read more
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"Regulation has nothing to do with setting standards; it meant putting rules in place that worked in favor of a few."-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes
"The animal's camera was installed behind its eyes, and sometimes it spun around on the three wheels hidden in its base, moving forward or backward. Someone was controlling the creature from somewhere…"-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes
26. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
27. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
28. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
29. 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
30. The Iliac Crest
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.65
Format: 200 pages, ebook
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro… read more
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"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
31. The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
By: Sarah Chihaya
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audien… read more
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