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  • The Road to Wigan Pier

    by George Orwell October 18, 1972 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    1,860 ratings

    In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of...

  • The Salmon of Doubt

    by Douglas Adams April 26, 2005 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    704 ratings

    With an introduction to the introduction by Terry Jones

    Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmicall...

  • The Secret of Fatima

    by Peter J. Tanous September 13, 2017 Literature & Fiction

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    4.0 stars

    92 ratings

    Father Kevin Thrall is chaplain to a poor, inner-city parochial school in Washington, D.C. where he leads a quiet and rewarding...

  • The Sheltering Sky

    by Paul Bowles October 24, 2000 Literature & Fiction

    A beautiful paperback edition of a landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles

    In this classic work...

  • The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue

    by Mike Figliola August 4, 2020 Literature & Fiction

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    4.9 stars

    46 ratings

    “Mike Figliola’s The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue is a street level gaze at Queens, New York in the offbeat tradition of Hen...

  • The Storytelling Animal

    by Jonathan Gottschall August 5, 2021 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    462 ratings

    A New York Times Editor's Choice

    A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist

    "A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] d...

  • The Sun Also Rises

    by Ernest Hemingway July 15, 2014 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    4,031 ratings

    The only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first novel.

    “The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continen...

  • The Three-Body Problem

    by Cixin Liu November 11, 2014 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    9,420 ratings

    Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!

    War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street Journal

    _The Three-Body...

  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka May 25, 1999 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    743 ratings

    Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a r...

  • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    by Douglas Adams April 30, 2002 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    7,750 ratings

    In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.

    Now celebrating the...

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    by Milan Kundera October 27, 2009 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    1,998 ratings

    In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love...

  • The White Album

    by Joan Didion November 10, 2009 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    995 ratings

    First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.

    Exami...

  • The World According to Garp

    by John Irving November 3, 1990 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    1,149 ratings

    New York Times bestseller -- 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author -- "A wonderful novel, full of ene...

  • Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

    by Jorge Luis Borges October 15, 1982 Literature & Fiction

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    5.0 stars

    4 ratings

    `Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an import...

  • Trick Mirror

    by Jia Tolentino July 14, 2020 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    203 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays a...

  • Understanding Comics

    by Scott McCloud April 27, 1994 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    1,842 ratings

    "You must read this book." —Neil Gaiman

    The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

    P...

  • What You Want

    by Constantine Phipps May 3, 2016 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    4 ratings

    Patrick is still in love with his separated wife. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park, he begs, one last...

  • Wind, Sand and Stars

    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry December 9, 2002 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    636 ratings

    Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of fli...

  • Your Dad Stole My Rake

    by Tom Papa June 5, 2018 Literature & Fiction

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    256 ratings

    “I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human f...

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