The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O…
Want to Read $ 12.99"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
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1. Mosquitoes
By: William Faulkner
3.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A delightful surprise, Faulkner wrote his second novel "for the sake of writing because it was fun.… read more
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"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."-William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior."-William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior."-William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
"Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?"-William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
2. Soldiers' Pay
By: William Faulkner
3.41
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World Wa… read more
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"Who gathers the withered rose?"-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."-William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
3. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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- southern gothic
"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
4. Flags in the Dust
By: William Faulkner , Douglas Day
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with hi… read more
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"Nowadays he drove the car into town to fetch his grandfather from habit alone, and though he still considered forty five miles an hour merely cruising speed, he no longer took cold and fiendish pleas…"-William Faulkner, Flags in the Dust
5. 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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"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
6. The Long Home
By: William Gay
4.04
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of… read more
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"Down fabled roads reverting now to woods Winer felt himself imprisoned by the dark beyond the carlights and by the compulsive timbre of Motormouth's voice, a drone obsessed with spewing out words wit…"-William Gay, The Long Home
"In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming throug…"-William Gay, The Long Home
7. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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- historical fiction
- 20th century
- southern gothic
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
8. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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9. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more
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10. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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11. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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12. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- southern gothic
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
13. Light in August
By: William Faulkner
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more
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14. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
15. 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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16. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
17. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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18. Twilight
By: William Gay
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
A Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won't let the dead rest. Suspecting that something … read more
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19. Sanctuary
By: William Faulkner
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuaryis a powerful novel examining the nature of… read more
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20. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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21. Go Down, Moses
By: William Faulkner
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone a… read more
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