Nothing Like the Sun
By: Anthony Burgess
3.77
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex…
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1. The Garden of Eden
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.70
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of … read more
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"Now we have done it. Now we really have done it."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
2. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
3. The Lemon Table
By: Julian Barnes
3.67
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most… read more
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- literature
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- english literature
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"Life is just a premature reaction to death."-Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
"если бы я вас спросила: «Что есть жизнь?», вы, вероятно, ответили бы коротко и ясно: просто совпадение."-Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
"In truth, he was just another man, behaving as men did in books, and she was just another woman for believing otherwise."-Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
"The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization."-Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
4. The End of the Road
By: John Barth
3.82
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Its first-person protagonist, Jacob Horner, suffers from nihilistic paralysis: an inability to choo… read more
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"Capisco perché Dio è scapolo."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"Scegliere è esistere: nella misura in cui non scegliete, non esistete."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"Il mondo è pieno di tonnellate e tonnellate di fregnacce, e senza nessuno scopo"."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"[...] hai rovinato la mia prima vera crisi di follia in tutte le domeniche del mese!"-John Barth, The End of the Road
5. Deadeye Dick
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more
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- literature
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6. Jailbird
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more
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7. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
8. The Spire
By: William Golding
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mas… read more
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9. To Have and Have Not
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.52
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more
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- 20th century
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"He was mad and plenty brave."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
10. Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2)
By: Dante Alighieri , Robert M. Durling
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine… read more
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- literature
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11. Nothing Like the Sun
By: Anthony Burgess
3.77
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex… read more
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- classics
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- british literature
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- 20th century
- historical fiction
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12. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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- classics
- literature
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13. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more
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- literature
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14. The Sot-Weed Factor
By: John Barth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factorhas acquired… read more
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15. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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16. Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
By: Richard Brautigan , Gordon Legge
3.40
Format: None pages,
A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author's hom… read more
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17. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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18. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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19. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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- literature
- classics
- 20th century
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
20. Survivor
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more
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"Suicide is very contagious."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
21. Inside Story
By: Martin Amis
4.00
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers… read more
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"In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins of the heart (real or imagined), it's your wives, your children, and h…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
"While we were moving from Camden Town, London, to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, there was much to do: and Elena did almost all of it. At the outset she made it clear that by far the greatest obstacle we wou…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
