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Never Let Me Go: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya Staff Pick Senselessness is the first of Castellanos Moya's novels to be translated into English, and though short, it manages to cast a wide net that demands as much from the reader as it does from its central character. In an unnamed Latin American country that... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grendel by John Gardner Staff Pick 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Staff Pick The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I’ve read in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus Staff Pick 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick 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) List Price $4.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years (The Wicked Years #03) by Gregory Maguire Staff Pick 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life and Times of Michael K (83 Edition) by J.m. Coetzee Staff Pick One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has seen its... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick 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) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition by Sarah Turing Staff Pick 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) Your price: $29.25 New - Hardcover
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Staff Pick "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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Loser (Vintage International) by Thomas Bernhard Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment (91 Edition) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Salzman Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waste Land and Other Poems (98 Edition) by T.s. Eliot Staff Pick 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) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime & Punishment #1: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Staff Pick 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) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek Staff Pick Though long a respected (and controversial) figure on the international literary stage, it was not until she won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature that Elfriede Jelinek became well known on this side of the Atlantic. The Piano Teacher is her most famous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano Staff Pick A decidedly Mexican novel that spans the entire globe, The Savage Detectives is Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Borges's Ficciones all rolled into one and somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts in the process. Beautifully... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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