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 …
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1. The Naked and the Dead
By: Norman Mailer
3.95
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more
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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
2. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
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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- humor
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
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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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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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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Borstal Boy
By: Brendan Behan , Benedict Kiely
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, a… read more
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11. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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12. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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13. 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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14. Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West
3.14
Format: 32 pages,
Miss Lonelyhearts Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned… read more
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15. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
16. 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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"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
17. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… 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. Henderson the Rain King
By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more
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20. Sophie's Choice
By: William Styron
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair b… read more
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21. 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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