Tropic of Orange
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news execu…
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1. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- literature
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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- literature
- novels
- american
- fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
By: Audre Lorde
4.35
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexit… read more
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"[…] your smile has been to war"-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"Our labor has become more important than our silence."-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
4. The Buddha in the Attic
By: Julie Otsuka
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more
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- fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
5. Dogeaters
By: Jessica Hagedorn
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her best-selling novel about the Philippines during … read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- school
6. Tropic of Orange
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news execu… read more
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- american
- magical realism
- school
- literature
- fiction
- novels
- fantasy
7. Power
By: Linda Hogan
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-a… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- magical realism
- school
8. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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- novels
- fiction
9. Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, s… read more
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- novels
- fiction
10. 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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12. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more
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13. The Member of the Wedding
By: Carson McCullers
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brot… read more
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14. M. Butterfly
By: David Henry Hwang
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more
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15. So Far from God
By: Ana Castillo
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love … read more
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16. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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17. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- school
"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
18. The Tattooed Soldier
By: Héctor Tobar
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hector Tobar's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and conseque… read more
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19. Mumbo Jumbo
By: Ishmael Reed
4.25
Format: 131 pages,
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbois Ishmael Reed's brill… read more
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20. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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21. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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