Deliverance
By: James Dickey
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In t…
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1. The Naked and the Dead
By: Norman Mailer
3.95
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more
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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
2. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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- literature
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
3. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
4. Deliverance
By: James Dickey
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In t… read more
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- classics
- adventure
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- horror
- thriller
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5. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
4.38
Format: None pages,
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more
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6. Sympathy for the Devil
By: Kent Anderson
3.12
Format: None pages,
Originally published in 1987, "Sympathy for the Devil" by the acclaimed author of "Night Dogs" is a… read more
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- thriller
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7. The Wapshot Chronicle
By: John Cheever , Rick Moody
4.16
Format: None pages,
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be … read more
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8. Appointment in Samarra
By: John O'Hara
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
O'Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Missi… read more
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9. A Fable
By: William Faulkner
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more
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10. Joe
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.… read more
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11. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
12. The Way of All Flesh
By: Samuel Butler
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more
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13. Ragtime
By: E.L. Doctorow
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more
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"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
14. Midnight Cowboy
By: James Leo Herlihy
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Joe Buck, naively charming Texan cowboy, seeks his fortune in the Big Apple, but encounters Ratso R… read more
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15. 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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16. In the Days of the Comet
By: H.G. Wells
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A provocative novel by H.G. Wells. In the midst of a world war, the tail of a comet brushes the atm… read more
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17. Zuleika Dobson
By: Max Beerbohm
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said … read more
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18. All the King's Men
By: Robert Penn Warren
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more
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19. No Country for Old Men
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more
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20. Pincher Martin
By: William Golding
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-At… read more
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21. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
