A Man Called Ove
a grumpy and solitary old man who finds unexpected connections and purpose in life
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Flying to America
published in 2007, this book presents all of Barthelme’s previously unpublished
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The Plains
In The Plains, Murnane explores how the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture.
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Love is Blind
William Boyd's Love is Blind follows the life of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish
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The Nose
follows the bizarre misadventures of Major Kovalyov and his missing nose
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The Skating Rink
With a murder at its heart, The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime
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Running Dog
follows Moll Robbins, a New York City journalist trailing the activities
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Lincoln in the Bardo
The novel takes place during and after the death of Abraham Lincoln's son William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln and deals with the president's grief at his loss. The bulk of the novel takes place throughout a single evening.
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Impossible Owls - Essays
The essays in Impossible Owls go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities.
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Molloy
the novelistic equivalent of abstract painting
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Riding Toward Everywhere
Delves into the history and culture of train hopping. Excellent writing.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean
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Underworld
The prologue of _Underworld_ is a fictionalized account of The Shot Heard
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My Struggle, Book 2
Knausgaard reflects on his strained relationship with his father, who is
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The Time Machine
A classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells published in 1895.
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My Struggle, Book 1
The book is a deeply introspective and honest exploration of Knausgaard's personal life, relationships, and struggles.
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A Brief History of Time
Hawking takes readers on a journey through the history of cosmology, from ancient Greek philosophers to modern scientific theories.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital tends to be higher than the rate of economic growth.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Genly Ai visits the planet of Gethen as an envoy of the Ekumen, a loose confederation of planets. Ai's mission is to persuade the nations of Gethen to join the Ekumen…
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Indignation
Set in America in 1951, during the Korean War, _Indignation_ is narrated
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Infinite Jest
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction…
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
The protagonist, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is a solitary and introspective man who has never been in love.
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.
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Invisible Cities
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan sensed the end of his empire…
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Cannery Row
The story revolves around the people living there, including Lee Chong, the local grocer. Doc, a marine biologist. And Mack, the leader of a group of derelicts.
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Rhinoceros
Theater of the absurd. Throughout three acts, the inhabitants of a provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses.
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The Rings of Saturn
Sebald weaves together topics and historical events, ranging from the decline
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Voyage Around My Room
A somewhat privileged man confined to a room in a house as punishment for taking part in a duel. How to pass the hours? He takes a journey around his room, of course. As one does. And writes about it creatively, of course.
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
A comprehensive and influential account of the life of one of the most prominent figures in 18th-century English literature…
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Night of Wenceslas
The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson.
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