Blood Meridian
Set in the mid-19th century, the story follows a runaway known as "the Kid" who joins a band of ruthless scalp hunters.
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A dizzying and complex novel with two interwoven narratives that take us
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Hunger
hunger.webp Hunger is a novel written by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and published in 1890. It follows the story of an unnamed protagonist, a struggling writer living in the city of Kristiania (now Oslo). He is the epitome of the starving artist. The novel is a psychological exploration of the protagonist’s descent into physical and mental deprivation. He wanders the streets, desperately searching for food and work. He becomes consumed by his hunger and the constant struggle to survive. The...
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Super Cannes
In Ballard's Super Cannes, a man discovers that an elite corporate utopia on the French Riviera maintains its hyper-efficiency by allowing executives to commit nightly acts of violence.
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The Martian Chronicles
The book presents a series of loosely connected narratives that depict humanity's colonization and exploration of Mars.
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Poems of Philip Larkin
Known for his introspective and often pessimistic view of the world.
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Laughter in the Dark
In Nabokov’s icy Berlin fable of fatal infatuation, an affluent, mediocre art critic trades his comfortable domestic life for a vulgar young usherette, only to be systematically blinded, betrayed, and ushered to his doom by the ruthless lovers who manipulate his sightless world.
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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending follows an aging Englishman whose comfortable, unexamined life is shattered when an unexpected bequest forces him to confront the dark consequences of a half-forgotten youth and the convenient lies he told himself to survive it.
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Death in Venice
Set in the early 20th century, it tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach setting a trap for Sherlock Holmes. Wait, no.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor wrote Man's Search for Meaning in 1946.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The central protagonist is Rick Deckard. Deckard is a bounty hunter who retires rogue androids, known as replicants. Note - this would make a great movie.
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1Q84
A secret organization known as "Sakigake" draws Aomame into it. Aomame is a skilled assassin. Tengo rewrites a mysterious novel conspiratorially…
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway captures a single June day in post-WWI London, weaving the inner monologues of a high-society hostess preparing for a party with those of a shell-shocked war veteran into a brilliant, chiming tapestry of time, memory, and mortal longing.
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The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth follows the wild, unrepentant escapades of Gulley Jimson—a rogue, visionary painter in mid-century London who sacrifices comfort, law, and sanity in his relentless quest to paint his sprawling artistic visions.
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Kafka on the Shore
Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15-year-old boy runs away from his Oedipal curse.
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2666
Bolaño's magnum opus, 2666 contains five major sections…
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Swann's Way
Marcel eats a cookie and recalls memories, but magical.
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The Moviegoer
Binx Bolling finds solace in going to the movies…
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The Road to Wellville
The eccentric and controversial practices of health enthusiasts.
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The Angel's Game
The story follows David Martín, a young writer.
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American Pastoral
The disintegration of the American Dream through the lens of one family.
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Blindness
The the breakdown of society in the face of an epidemic of blindness.
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Olive Kitteridge
A collection of interconnected stories that revolve around Olive.
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The Siege of Krishnapur
Set during the Sepoy Mutiny, the story of the Brits falling apart.
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Inherent Vice
A pothead detective manages somehow to solve the crime.
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Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello, a fighter for animal rights.
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Slow Man
An aging photographer suffers a debilitating accident.
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I am a Cat
A professor's cat observes and comments on the eccentricities and foibles of the human characters that surround it.
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
A collection of detective stories set in the Tang dynasty.
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The Singapore Grip
Set against the backdrop of an impending Japanese invasion.
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