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<<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>     sort list by title | author Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating... The Dharma Bums Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, the novel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnik seekers in a... Shalimar the Clown A Novel Salman Rushdie "Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend–they're all blended here magnificently."–The Washington Post Book WorldThis is the... Brave New World Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that... Nightwood Djuna Barnes Nightwood is a book for long, dark nights. Barnes vividly depicts a world of aristocratic decay in which tormented characters blindly grope toward ambiguous desires, often leading them toward grotesque fates. It is one of the more psychologically... Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov The classic novel from the author of Lolita, brilliantly portraying one man's ruin through love and betrayal. "Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for... Wild Ducks Flying Backward Tom Robbins Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes... Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." On Beauty Zadie Smith Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town... No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old... To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into... The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close A Novel Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reasonas the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and... War by Candlelight Stories Daniel Alarcon Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from... <<< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >>>