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<<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories. The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's... We the Animals A Novel Justin Torres An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off... Suttree Cormac McCarthy McCarthy's last book set in the South before he moved his focus to the West, this is an emotionally opaque but terribly powerful portrait of a damaged man. This book teaches by a sort of unrelenting immersion; plunging you into a world of vivid squalor... Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy's classic work, which Nabokov claimed was the best love story ever written, is beautifully rendered here in this subtle and lovely translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky. I think in Anna Karenina, more than any other of his works, Tolstoy... Collected Stories of William Faulkner William Faulkner Though the volume may be imposing, the discrete stories in this collection each create and inhabit a world of life and feeling. Faulkner's craft is at its best in his short fiction, and if I had to take one book of Faulkner with me to a desert island... The Magicians A Novel Lev Grossman A wonderfully-written novel of fantasy for adults. For any of fan of Narnia, Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, but with a drunken, drugged-out edge. The true-to-life characters take you through the whirlwind of going to a university for magic... The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers McCullers has a way of making her straight-forward, richly Southern voice sound as if she is speaking profound truths about the world around her, that of the 1940's and 50's deep South. This is her first novel (written at age 23!) and it is widely... The Savage Detectives A Novel Roberto Bolaño The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation, but his novel The Savage Detectives is a lot closer to Y Tu Mamá También than it is to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Hilarious and sexy, meandering and... Nazi Literature in the Americas Roberto Bolaño The book purports to be a biographical dictionary gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely right-wing political views. While several meet violent ends, most are simply deluded... Super Sad True Love Story A Novel Gary Shteyngart Did the opposable thumb evolve to text? Happy to find that I'm not the only one contemplating such serious matters. Shteyngart's new novel is sad, but also very heartwarming to those of us skeptical of, and concerned about, the role that electronic... Between the Woods and the Water On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1933, while Europe was drawing closer to WWII, the nineteen-year-old Fermor walked from Holland to Constantinople, and this is what he's written so far of the travelogue. The curious, adventuresome young man he was infuses this story with... West of the West Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State Mark Arax With his reportage and essays, Arax is mining territory somewhere between Rebecca Solnit and James Ellroy—here you'll find both thoughtful musings on geography and intense crime investigations. Written with real vitality and engagement, this book makes... Mr. Peanut Adam Ross A terrifying, Hitchcockian portrait of love turned to hate, and to murder. Did our hapless protagonists really kill their wives, or did they just hope someone else would finish the job? Mr. Peanut is a riveting, strange literary thriller, a scary dive... <<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>