The Twenty-Seventh City
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.88
Format: None pages,
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic…
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1. Oblivion: Stories
By: David Foster Wallace
4.07
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- unfinished
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
2. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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- fiction
- novels
3. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
4. Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
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- contemporary
5. Fresh Complaint
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides Jeff… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
- contemporary
6. The Twenty-Seventh City
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.88
Format: None pages,
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- unfinished
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
7. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
By: D.T. Max
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Fo… read more
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- literature
- american
8. The Child in Time
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more
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9. Manhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more
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10. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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11. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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12. The Broom of the System
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more
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13. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
14. The Coma
By: Alex Garland
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and … read more
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15. Masters of Atlantis
By: Charles Portis
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical… read more
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16. Finnegans Wake
By: James Joyce
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more
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17. Cosmopolis
By: Don DeLillo
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more
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18. Mohawk
By: Richard Russo
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series--and reissued now in ha… read more
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19. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
By: Walter Johnson
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more
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"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
20. L'affaire du ticket scandaleux, tome 2 (Dans la tête de Sherlock Holmes, #2)
By: Cyril Liéron
4.45
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Alors que Sherlock Holmes et le Dr Watson sont sur la piste du magicien chinois Wu-Jing, le ministr… read more
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21. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
By: Kieran Setiya
3.56
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you … read more
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"The way in which you relate to the activities that matter most to you is by trying to complete them and so expel them from your life. Your days are devoted to ending, one by one, the activities that …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"In philosophers' terms, the shift in perspective is not temporal, but "epistemic": it has to do with knowledge. Emotionally, there is a fundamental difference between knowing that I will miss out on …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"When the demands of life are pressing, too urgent to be ignored, it would be a mistake to devote all day to contemplation, reading Wordsworth, or playing golf. Being mortal, think of mortal things. Y…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"We can escape the self-destructive cycle of pursuit, resolution, and renewal, of attainments archived or unachieved. The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
