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Grendel
Grendel
by John Gardner
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It's easy to find oneself in the thrall of hanks of blond hair and mead-fueled heroism, but it is a more difficult task to regard, with care, the heart of a monster. The monster (but is he?) in question is Grendel, an introspective animal who loves his... (read more)

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Never Let Me Go: A Novel
Never Let Me Go: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no good. Ishiguro's novel touches... (read more)

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The Plague (Vintage International)
The Plague (Vintage International)
by Albert Camus
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In The Plague, the Algerian city of Oran is set upon by plague and sealed off from the rest of the world, its citizens imprisoned not only with the disease but also with each other. Or are they? By the novel's end, every character is profoundly changed... (read more)

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
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One of the most inventive books in recent decades, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler has a nearly animate quality (or barely inanimate quality); its succession of unwinding mysteries suggests what it might be like to find oneself in a... (read more)

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Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries)
Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Mark Salzman
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Sister John of the Cross is a nun with special gifts; she is filled with poetry, with love for God and the Innocent Spouse, and with pain (real pain in the form of blinding headaches that give her no rest, but during which she has visions). Something... (read more)

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Master and Margarita (67 Edition)
Master and Margarita (67 Edition)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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"Manuscripts don't burn" — that's what the man said. It's impossible to destroy the last thing that one has loved, as memory trumps death. This holds true for Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita: he burned his own copy down to nothing,... (read more)

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Barabbas (Vintage International)
Barabbas (Vintage International)
by Par Lagerkvist
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There are those — and they are legion — who believe that their souls shall someday unravel and their intricacies and silences will finally be known by their Lord. Then there is Barabbas, the subject of this novel by Par Lagerkvist. Barabbas... (read more)

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The War Prayer
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
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In a church, young men are being gathered together prior to being shepherded off to their red, white, and blue deaths. To die for God and country! Those assembled laud this as no better fate, especially when accompanied by the slaughter of their faraway (... (read more)

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The Great Fire
The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
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The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I’ve read in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights.... (read more)

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What I Loved
What I Loved
by Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt is one of the best writers that you've probably never heard of, and What I Loved is an extraordinary novel. Hustvedt's writing is agile and revelatory: now breathless, now cool, it's a story wound around the hollows left by love and memory.... (read more)

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Waste Land and Other Poems (98 Edition)
Waste Land and Other Poems (98 Edition)
by T.s. Eliot
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Many things happen in "The Waste Land"; a woman tends her hair — it may well be her last mystery — so that it does (like grass left unmolested, perhaps) sing; chess is played in the closest of circumstances... wait, does any of that make sense?... (read more)

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Crime & Punishment #1: Crime and Punishment
Crime & Punishment #1: Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03)
A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03)
by Gregory Maguire
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With this latest installment, it has become clear that Gregory Maguire's already politically subversive Wicked Years series is growing ever darker. A Lion among Men is devoted to (as you may have guessed) the story of the Cowardly Lion, known here as... (read more)

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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Upon publication in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night at once scandalized and invigorated French Literature, and has continued to influence authors of many nationalities to this day. It's the story of Bardamu, a man who continually finds himself at... (read more)

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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition
Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition
by Sarah Turing
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This year marked the centenary of the birth of Alan Mathison Turing; among the many, many commemorative events that occurred during the Alan Turing Year were the reissues of two biographies of AMT. One was Andrew Hodges's extraordinary work Alan Turing... (read more)

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The Plague (Modern Library College Editions)
The Plague (Modern Library College Editions)
by Albert Camus
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The Algerian city of Oran is set upon by plague and sealed off from the rest of the world, its citizens imprisoned not only with the disease but also with each other. Or are they? By the novel's end. every character is profoundly changed by the... (read more)

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The Loser (Vintage International)
The Loser (Vintage International)
by Thomas Bernhard
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Like much of his other work, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser has suicide at its core. Three men met and became friends while attending the Mozarteum in Vienna, and only one — the narrator — is still alive. The other two characters are a heavily... (read more)

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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more)

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