A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By: Dung Kai-cheung
2.88
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
By: Daniil Kharms , Matvei Yankelevich
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
2. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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- fiction
3. Marcovaldo
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
4. Evening Class
By: Maeve Binchy
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the sur… read more
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5. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- fiction
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
6. 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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"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
7. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
8. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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- fiction
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
9. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- fiction
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
10. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- fiction
11. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- asian literature
- short stories
- fiction
"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
12. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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- fiction
13. Hokuloa Road
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.31
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shirley Jackson Award-winner Elizabeth Hand comes a haunting and atmospheric new mystery perfe… read more
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- fiction
14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
15. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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- fiction
16. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- fiction
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
17. Light Perpetual
By: Francis Spufford
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed and award‑winning author of Golden Hill, an “extraordinary…symphonic…… read more
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- fiction
18. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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19. Strange Beasts of China
By: Yan Ge
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more
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- asian literature
- short stories
- fiction
"All we have are stories."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
20. Dead-End Memories: Stories
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more
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- asian literature
- short stories
- fiction
"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
21. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
22. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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- fiction
23. Appleseed
By: Matt Bell
3.57
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fict… read more
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- fiction
24. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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- fiction
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
25. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more
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- fiction
"Burial is just another recipe"-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
26. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
By: Grace Ellis
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more
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27. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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- fiction
"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
28. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
By: Wole Soyinka
3.16
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospi… read more
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- fiction
29. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
By: Ludovic Slimak
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more
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30. Incidental Inventions
By: Elena Ferrante
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.” With these words, Elena … read more
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- short stories
"Am meisten fürchten müssen wir uns vor der Raserei verängstigter Menschen."-Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions
"My mother was very beautiful and very clever, like all mammas, so I loved her and hated her. I began to hate her when I was around ten, maybe because I loved her so much that the idea of losing her t…"-Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions
"Maybe the truth is that saying goodbye seems to me a rejection of human warmth - even the minimal warmth that makes us feel solitude less. I mean real solitude, which rises up by surprise and lasts a…"-Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions
31. A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By: Dung Kai-cheung
2.88
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimps… read more
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- asian literature
- short stories
- fiction
