The Quick and the Dead
By: Joy Williams
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is…
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Stephen Florida
By: Gabe Habash
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, r… read more
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3. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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4. The Maytrees
By: Annie Dillard
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bond… read more
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5. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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6. Fiskadoro
By: Denis Johnson
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by the New York Timesas "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melvill… read more
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7. The Quick and the Dead
By: Joy Williams
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is… read more
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- magical realism
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- contemporary
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8. Angels
By: Denis Johnson
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more
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- american
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9. Pym
By: Mat Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventu… read more
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- novels
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10. Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1)
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in… read more
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11. Chilly Scenes of Winter
By: Ann Beattie
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat sal… read more
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12. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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13. Evidence of Things Unseen
By: Marianne Wiggins
3.07
Format: None pages,
This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the At… read more
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14. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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15. Private Citizens
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and fr… read more
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16. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
17. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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18. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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19. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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20. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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21. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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