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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
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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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"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. Ransom
By: Jay McInerney
3.30
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Since Christopher Ransom has been living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, he has devoted him… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
4. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"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
5. Earthly Powers
By: Anthony Burgess
4.13
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring w… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"I must give up seeing people, I told myself."-Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
"...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless..."-Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
"The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet."-Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
"Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely."-Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
6. The End of the Road
By: John Barth
3.82
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Its first-person protagonist, Jacob Horner, suffers from nihilistic paralysis: an inability to choo… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
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"Capisco perché Dio è scapolo."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"Scegliere è esistere: nella misura in cui non scegliete, non esistete."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"Il mondo è pieno di tonnellate e tonnellate di fregnacce, e senza nessuno scopo"."-John Barth, The End of the Road
"[...] hai rovinato la mia prima vera crisi di follia in tutte le domeniche del mese!"-John Barth, The End of the Road
7. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"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
8. 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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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
9. The Forensic Records Society
By: Magnus Mills
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I remained convinced that my original theory was correct: there were some records that were never h… read more
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- novels
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Blow Your House Down
By: Pat Barker
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out pr… read more
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- thriller
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
11. An Awfully Big Adventure
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
12. 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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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
13. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
14. A Bend in the River
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he st… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
15. 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
- novels
- classics
- fiction
16. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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17. 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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- literary fiction
- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- 20th century
- thriller
- novels
"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
18. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
By: Clive James
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedi… read more
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19. The Old Devils
By: Kingsley Amis
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wa… read more
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20. 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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21. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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22. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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23. Armadillo
By: William Boyd
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black -- insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise --… read more
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24. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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- classics
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- 20th century
- novels
"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
25. 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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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
26. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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27. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 20th century
- novels
"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
28. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
29. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
30. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- contemporary
- british literature
31. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
