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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano  
Powells.com 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...
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com 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...
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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Powells.com 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,...
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Grendel
by John Gardner
Powells.com 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...
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The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics)
by Graham Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Passion, fury, introspection and exposure... everything that makes for a good affair. Boy meets girl. Girl lies to husband so as to happily bend to something which is almost certainly boy. Girl almost loses boy. Boy loses girl to another. Boy then really...
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
by Tim O'Brien
Powells.com Staff Pick During the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien spent a year in the U.S. infantry. As a result, he wrote If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), an account of his experiences there. He doesn't spare us the terrible particulars of this piece of our...
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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Mark Salzman
Powells.com 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...
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The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)
by T S Eliot
Powells.com 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?...
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Barabbas (Vintage International)
by Par Lagerkvist
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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