The Collected Stories
By: Lydia Davis
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. Blow-Up and Other Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
3. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
"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
4. Like Life
By: Lorrie Moore
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily exist… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
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- contemporary
"I mean …"-Lorrie Moore, Like Life
"So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen."-Lorrie Moore, Like Life
"Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one."-Lorrie Moore, Like Life
"One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them."-Lorrie Moore, Like Life
5. Omensetter's Luck
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
- fiction
6. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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- literature
7. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
By: Cedric J. Robinson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… read more
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8. Laughter in the Dark
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, h… read more
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"Death often is the point of life's joke."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s w…"-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
9. The Collected Stories
By: Lydia Davis
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American v… read more
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- american
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- short stories
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- contemporary
- 21st century
10. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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- literature
- american
- fiction
11. A Frolic of His Own
By: William Gaddis
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With the publication of the "Recognitions" in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- american
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12. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- short stories
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- contemporary
13. The Apple in the Dark
By: Clarice Lispector
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more
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14. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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15. The Collected Stories
By: Amy Hempel
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is a… read more
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16. The Complete Poems 1927-1979
By: Elizabeth Bishop
3.35
Format: None pages,
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman… read more
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17. Thin Skin: Essays
By: Jenn Shapland
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more
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- short stories
18. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
19. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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20. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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- contemporary
21. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By: Toni Morrison
4.30
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio… read more
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"A perfect thing is not everything."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"Home is memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
