His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.
…on a shelf somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality ()…
_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together. William uncovers a hitherto unknown relation…
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965.
…dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.
Set in South Africa, the story revolves around a family and their struggles with identity, secrets, and the legacy of apartheid.
_Cloud Cuckoo Land_ is the story of five characters spanning eight centuries.
The novel is a roman à clef written as a memoir. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, and Ravelstein, who is dying, asks the narrator to write a memoir about him after he dies.
The novel's setting is an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
The novel is about a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he encounters in a depression-era town in Georgia.
The story revolves around a group of scientists in Antarctica, who discover an alien life form trapped in the ice.
Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot
The novel begins during the Cultural Revolution in China, where a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie witnesses her father's death at the hands of Red Guards.
Foucault's Pendulum is Umberto Eco's novel of a few Milanese book editors who are bored with their work. To pass the time they cook up an elaborate hoax…
The novel tells the story of Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's syndrome
Bras Cubas is one of the weirdest books I've read in a while and it doesn't feel like it was written in the 19th century.
A disastrous job interview and a confrontation with the police force Ignatius to find real work as a hotdog vendor.
A post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.
Kazuo Ishiguro sets _Klara and the Sun_ in a dystopian future when some children are genetically engineered for enhanced academic ability.
The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The initial Star Trek episode as intended and not the one aired.
A collection of short stories.
a first-person narrative that revolves around the character known as Sister. She recounts the events leading up to her decision to leave her family home.
_The Cyberiad_ are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” who have created marvels for kingdoms.
_Ragtime_ combines fictional narratives with real-life events, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Think Zelig.
Santiago's journey takes him from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a hidden treasure.
Rasselas enlists the help of an artist who is also known as an engineer to help with his escape from the Valley
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.