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1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author Turbulence Samit Basu A wild ride. —Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books Shallow Water A Southern Gothic Noir Western Chris D. Post-Civil War, embittered Confederate veteran and sometime bounty hunter Santo Brady drifts from town to town in the rural Deep South. He reluctantly rescues half-breed Indian prostitute Lucy Damien from a backwater whistle stop only to have the... The Twenty-Year Death Ariel S. Winter A breathtaking debut novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre. Ready Player One Ernest Cline If you are a geek for 80s popculture taking place in Virtual Reality in the futuretime of 2044, solving videogame mysteries to win the ultimate prize, then this book is for you. I loved it to bytes! —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books The Magician King Lev Grossman The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest that proves that Grossman is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis. Reamde A Novel Neal Stephenson From the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual. The Day Of Creation J. G. Ballard Embassytown China Mieville A planet at the farthest reaches of human colonisation. A planet needed by humanity for its irreproducible biotechnology. An exo-terran species whose goodwill is needed in trade negotiations, but whose language is so difficult to mimic that human... Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The temperature at which book paper combusts! Written in 1951, this dystopian novel is a must-read in today's world of disappearing bookstores and young readers who have never held an actual paperback. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books His Dark Materials The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman Has that quality shared by all great books, in that it reveals new things about itself and you with every re-read. As a bonus, it will also make you cry like a baby each time (or is that just me?) —Recommended by Vanessa, City Lights Books Fatale Jean-Patrick Manchette Aimée Joubert, the central character in Fatale, is a matter-of-fact businesswoman killer. In only his third novel translated into Englisg (the two others published by City Lights), Manchette delivers a terse, immediate tale where Aimée deals the... A Moment of Doubt Jim Nisbet The streets of San Francisco ooze with danger, sex, poets, and technology in this hard-boiled mystery, creating a story that is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Set in the 1980s, this is the tale of an idealistic and angst-ridden writer who... Low Bite Sin Soracco Full of ovaries and bravada, this is not a girls-gone-wild-behind-bars pulp tale. But it is an underground classic thankfully back in print. It is also a picture of life behind bars and the hustle to stay cool and get out without playing out or getting... The City & The City China Mieville A wonderfully labyrinthine novel. Ostensibly a murder mystery cum police procedural, Mieville has much more on his mind here -- how does a class of people define itself and coexist with another class of people with whom it may, on the surface, have... 1 2 3 4 5 >>>