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<<< 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 >>>     sort list by title | author Black Swan Green A Novel David Mitchell From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in... The Ruins of California Martha Sherrill You're visiting San Francisco and hoping to read a book that captures some of the history and unmatched culture of the place. Here is the perfect novel. Inez Ruin comes of age in "Summer of Love" SF, dividing her time between North Beach bachelor dad's... Tales of the Out & the Gone Amiri Baraka Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novelThe Broom of the System.Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge... The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self... The Stories of Paul Bowles Paul Bowles The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and... 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... The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I... 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." <<< 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 >>>