Ratner's Star
By: Don DeLillo
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future…
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1. The Rainbow Stories
By: William T. Vollmann
3.97
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen un… read more
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2. 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
3. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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5. The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more
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6. 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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7. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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8. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)
By: Philip Roth
3.74
Format: 296 pages,
I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more
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9. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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10. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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11. Run River
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and b… read more
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12. Ratner's Star
By: Don DeLillo
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future… read more
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13. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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14. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more
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15. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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16. Bleeding Edge
By: Thomas Pynchon
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more
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17. 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
18. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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19. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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20. 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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21. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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