Loving
By: Henry Green
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of his most admired works, Lovingdescribes life above and below stairs in an Irish country hous…
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1. 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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"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
2. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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- literature
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
3. The Ginger Man
By: J.P. Donleavy
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more
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- literature
- fiction
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- ireland
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
5. The Assistant
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
6. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- war
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- novels
7. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- ireland
8. A High Wind in Jamaica
By: Francine Prose , Richard Hughes
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in E… read more
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- literature
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9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10. The Zigzag Way
By: Anita Desai
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
In The Zigzag Way, the critically acclaimed novelist Anita Desai offers a gorgeously nuanced story … read more
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- literature
- fiction
11. Under the Net
By: Iris Murdoch
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
12. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
4.38
Format: None pages,
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more
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13. Loving
By: Henry Green
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of his most admired works, Lovingdescribes life above and below stairs in an Irish country hous… read more
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- literature
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- ireland
14. Money
By: Martin Amis
3.69
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more
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- literature
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- classics
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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."-Martin Amis, Money
"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"-Martin Amis, Money
15. Appointment in Samarra
By: John O'Hara
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
O'Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Missi… read more
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16. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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17. The Death of the Heart
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more
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18. Zuleika Dobson
By: Max Beerbohm
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said … read more
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19. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
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20. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more
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21. A World of Love
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created… read more
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