Farther Away
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's Freedomwas the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching …
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1. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
By: Michael Azerrad
4.22
Format: 522 pages, Paperback
This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more
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- american
- nonfiction
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
2. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
By: Robertson Davies
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
"Who killed Boy Staunton?"This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant… read more
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- literature
3. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald , Sally Fitzgerald
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a n… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
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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- literature
- american
- short stories
5. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- literature
6. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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- literature
7. 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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- literature
- 21st century
- american
- short stories
8. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
By: Jonathan Coe
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to com… read more
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9. Farther Away
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's Freedomwas the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching … read more
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- american
- memoir
- literature
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- 21st century
10. Invisible
By: Paul Auster
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most pass… read more
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11. Sailor Song
By: Ken Kesey
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American … read more
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12. My First Summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foo… read more
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13. A Hologram for the King
By: Dave Eggers
3.29
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman… read more
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- literature
- american
"It all meant something. Until it didn't."-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard."-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
"Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are."-Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
14. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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- literature
"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
15. Indignation
By: Philip Roth
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying … read more
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16. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more
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17. 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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18. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more
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19. The Water-Method Man
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a per… read more
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20. The Man Who Loved Children
By: Randall Jarrell , Christina Stead
4.50
Format: None pages,
Every family lives in an evolving story, told by all its members, inside a landscape of portentous … read more
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21. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
By: Susan Orlean
4.22
Format: 160 pages,
The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more
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22. The Complete Eightball 1-18
By: Daniel Clowes
4.20
Format: None pages, Boxed Set
Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World… read more
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23. The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
By: Alan Blair , Maj Sjöwall , Per Wahlöö
4.07
Format: 640 pages,
In this classic police procedural, the ever-dyspeptic Martin Beck has nothing to be amused about, e… read more
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24. Nostromo
By: Joseph Conrad
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more
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25. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
26. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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- nonfiction
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
27. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
28. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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- 21st century
- american
- nonfiction
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
29. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more
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- nonfiction
30. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- 21st century
- nonfiction
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
31. The Illusionist
By: Anita Mason
3.69
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
This is a novel about Simon Magus who was a Samaritan magus or religious figure and a convert to C… read more
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