Under the Glacier
By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacieris aone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocativ…
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literary fiction
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- novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- literature
- classics
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. Icefields
By: Thomas Wharton
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Winner of: The Banff Grand National Prize for Literature The Writers Guild of Alberta Best First … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
4. Sofia Petrovna
By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth
4.04
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
By: T.S. Eliot
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old… read more
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- classics
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6. Au Pair
By: Willem Frederik Hermans
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
Kunstgeschiedenis en Frans, dat wil de negentienjarige, 1 meter 92 lange Paulina uit Vlissingen stu… read more
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7. Under the Glacier
By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacieris aone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocativ… read more
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- nobel prize
- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
- scandinavian literature
8. Huasipungo
By: Jorge Icaza
4.39
Format: 288 pages,
Huasipungoes una pieza fundamental en el desarrollo de la narrativa indigenista andina. El indio qu… read more
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9. A Fan's Notes
By: Frederick Exley
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's … read more
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10. The Blue Fox
By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NORDIC LITERARY PRIZE AND NOMINATED FOR THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE The year is 18… read more
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11. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more
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12. The Gift
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell , Dmitri Nabokov
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The Giftis the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement … read more
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13. Three Tales
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse
4.03
Format: 325 pages,
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more
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14. From the Mouth of the Whale
By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science … read more
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15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
By: Alison Weir
3.88
Format: 192 pages,
Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir… read more
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16. Henderson the Rain King
By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more
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17. Hour of the Wolf (Inspector Van Veeteren #7)
By: Håkan Nesser , Laurie Thompson
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this latest entry into the internationally acclaim… read more
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18. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
By: Luke Epplin
4.48
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more
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19. Snerting
By: Olaf Olafsson
4.05
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Kristófer hyggst loka veitingastað sínum í miðbæ Reykjavíkur vegna veirunnar, eftir áratuga farsæla… read more
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- fiction
20. The Bloater
By: Rosemary Tonks
3.47
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Min, married, but like a reckless little schoolgirl still unbroken, is being wooed by 'the Bloater'… read more
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21. Food
By: Gertrude Stein
1.96
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more
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