The Pole
A Polish pianist with an unpronounceable last name (let's call him W) comes
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Convenience Store Woman
The novel revolves around Keiko Furukura, a socially awkward woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years.
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The Nickel Boys
A chilling novel based on a true story, which begins with hope and ends in tragedy.
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My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty
“My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty” is a Murakami short story that first appeared in The New Yorker ( my-cheesecake-shaped-poverty.pdf ). This very short story is part of The New Yorker’s flash fiction series, so it’s unlikely it is more than 1000 words. The time is 1973. A young newlywed couple desires to move into their first home. They don’t have much money, so the estate agent looks them up and down and hesitantly takes them to the “Triangle Zone” property. It...
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The Bear
The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.
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The Glass Hotel
Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette.
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed is about a planet and its moon and the clashing cultures…
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Lucy By the Sea
The novel begins with William Barton visiting his ex-wife in NYC as the COVID-19 epidemic begins.
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The Lives of Animals
A work tha explores the moral and ethical dimensions of animal suffering.
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The Return
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…
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Fifth Business
The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay's life.
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Liberation Day
A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair,
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is a thought-provoking dystopian novel written…
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The Box Man
An eerie and evocative masterpiece with a nameless protagonist.
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Small Things Like These
An eventful Christmas in a small Irish town.
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To Have and Have Not
Hemingway's _To Have and Have Not_ is a commentary on the time of The Great Depression told from multiple viewpoints.
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Emma
Emma is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. So, it's fun.
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Sula
Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
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Honeymoon
Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.
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Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme
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.
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Entropy
explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party; other stories included in the volume
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The Midnight Library
…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 ()…
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Bad Monkey
_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.
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Oh, William!
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together. William uncovers a hitherto unknown relation…
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Oranges
… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.
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Missing Person
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965.
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Both Flesh and Not
Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves past the line.
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Grey Bees
…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.
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A Confederate General from Big Sur
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.
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Exhalation - Stories
Chiang's collection tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.