Turnaround
By: Don Carpenter
3.90
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Norman Mailer hailed Don Carpenter's last novel, A Couple of Comedians, as "the best novel I've eve…
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1. Miss Lonelyhearts
By: Nathanael West
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
2. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- americana
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes
4.09
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more
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- fiction
"Courage, dear heart."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
6. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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- fiction
"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
7. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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- fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
8. The Easter Parade
By: Richard Yates
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Purity
By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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- fiction
"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
11. Warlock (Legends West, #1)
By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more
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12. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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13. Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Oryx and Crakeis at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman… read more
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14. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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15. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
16. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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17. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more
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- fiction
"Do not dare not to dare."-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
18. 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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19. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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20. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
21. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- literary fiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
22. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
23. Call Me a Cab
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.00
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more
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- fiction
24. Lowdown Road
By: Scott Von Doviak
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more
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- fiction
25. Beneath the Rising (Beneath the Rising, #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.47
Format: 462 pages, Paperback
Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and tec… read more
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26. Turnaround
By: Don Carpenter
3.90
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Norman Mailer hailed Don Carpenter's last novel, A Couple of Comedians, as "the best novel I've eve… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- americana
