The Jew of New York
By: Ben Katchor
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision,…
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1. The Flintstones, Vol. 1
By: Steve Pugh , Mark Russell
4.17
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Fred and Barney reunite for Mark Russell's modern take on Hanna-Barbera's most famous stone-age fam… read more
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"It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other."-Steve Pugh, The Flintstones, Vol. 1
2. Women
By: Charles Bukowski
3.81
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more
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"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."-Charles Bukowski, Women
3. Galápagos
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages,
Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more
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4. Welcome to the Monkey House
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House(1968) incorporates almost completely Vonneg… read more
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5. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
6. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso syn… read more
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7. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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8. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
9. The Jew of New York
By: Ben Katchor
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision,… read more
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- jewish
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10. Goodnight Moon
By: Margaret Wise Brown , Clement Hurd
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And… read more
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11. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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12. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
13. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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14. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
15. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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16. Post Office
By: Charles Bukowski
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more
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"It began as a mistake."-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
17. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
18. Appelez-moi Nathan
By: Catherine Castro
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Nathan est né Lila, dans un corps de fille. Un corps qui ne lui a jamais convenu, il décide alors d… read more
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19. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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20. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
21. The Low, Low Woods
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.95
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more
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