Heavy Water and Other Stories
By: Martin Amis
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journ…
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1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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- fiction
"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
2. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
3. 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
- fiction
4. The Female Man
By: Joanna Russ
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more
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- fiction
5. A Heart So White
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
6. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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- fiction
7. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"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
8. Panther In The Basement
By: Amos Oz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Heavy Water and Other Stories
By: Martin Amis
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journ… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- modern
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
10. While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Foreword by Dave Eggers Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenc… read more
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11. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
12. Resurrection
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.00
Format: None pages,
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more
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13. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
14. 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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15. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
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16. From the Dust Returned
By: Ray Bradbury
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilara… read more
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17. Armadillo
By: William Boyd
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black -- insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise --… read more
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18. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
19. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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20. Age of Iron
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has … read more
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21. Ravelstein
By: Saul Bellow
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories … read more
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22. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
23. Until August
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.65
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cho… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
24. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
By: Renée Nault
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more
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- fiction
25. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
26. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
27. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
28. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
30. Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
3.26
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, f… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"-Zadie Smith, Grand Union
