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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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Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick When he died in 2003, at the age of 50, Roberto Bolaño was all but unknown anywhere north of the Rio Grande, yet he is now acclaimed internationally and considered among the most eminent figures in Latin American letters. Chilean by birth, but living...
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's...
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (79 Edition)
by Italo Calvino
Powells.com Staff Pick For those with an amorous affair with books, this may, perhaps, be the ultimate love letter to the reader. Calvino's novel, or more precisely, his book of ten interrelated stories, is both masterfully created and startlingly unique. Told alternately in...
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Island (Perennial Classics)
by Aldous Huxley
Powells.com Staff Pick Published in 1962, the year before his death (which occurred on the same day JFK was assassinated), Island is the antithesis of his earlier-acclaimed Brave New World. Whereas Brave New World describes the epitome of a dystopian future, Island is a...
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Upside Down
by Eduardo Galeano
Powells.com Staff Pick Journalist, historian, poet, author — there is no other writer whose style is comparable to that of Eduardo Galeano. The Uruguayan penner, best known for his acclaimed Memory of Fire trilogy, further indicts our culture of privilege in Upside Down...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey
Powells.com Staff Pick He's often compared to Thoreau, and one of his mottos was taken from Emerson: "resist much, obey little." While Abbey has much in common with the forefathers of environmental conservation, he certainly took it a few giant steps further. Abbey and his...
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Letters From the Earth : Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain (91 Edition)
by Mark Twain
Powells.com Staff Pick If the only Twain you've ever read is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Connecticut Yankee, this collection shall prove much more than surprising (either pleasantly or appallingly, depending on your sensibilities). Published posthumously despite the objections...
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All the Names (99 Edition)
by Jose Saramago
Powells.com Staff Pick "You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns the seemingly...
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Baltasar and Bilmunda (87 Edition)
by Jose Saramago
Powells.com Staff Pick Widely considered to be one of the most accomplished works from Portugal's only Nobel laureate, Baltasar and Blimunda is a heart-wrenching epic of prodigious scope. Set in the early years of the eighteenth century, the story seamlessly intertwines...
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The Stones of Summer
by Dow Mossman
Powells.com Staff Pick Originally published in 1972, The Stones of Summer, despite favorable reviews and a cult following, went out of print for nearly 20 years. Following Mark Moskowitz's 2003 documentary film Stone Reader (about Mossman and The Stones of Summer), the book's...
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Ella Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn
Powells.com Staff Pick Originally subtitled "A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable," Mark Dunn's brilliantly conceived and cleverly written Ella Minnow Pea is a logophile's dream novel. Composed entirely of letters, this is the playful story of Nollop, a fictional...
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
Powells.com Staff Pick Wanderlust is a pervasive, seemingly incurable "virus of restlessness." Not contagious in any clinical sense, you either have it or you don't. John Steinbeck did, in spades. As the 1960s commenced, Steinbeck, according to his oldest son, sensed his...
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The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
Powells.com Staff Pick Relatively unknown during his lifetime (having published only a single book of poems), Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) has since been recognized as a literary genius. A national hero in his native Portugal, he developed a style of writing based on the use of...
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Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City
by Italo Calvino
Powells.com Staff Pick While not as well known as If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, or Cosmicomics, Marcovaldo equally exemplifies the peerless brilliance of Italo Calvino's creativity. The tale of Marcovaldo, a hapless laborer living with his family in...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang
Powells.com Staff Pick "Here's a little story that must be told..." Jeff Chang, hip-hop journalist (URB, Village Voice, Spin, the Nation, San Francisco Chronicle), has penned an award-winning (2005 American Book Award) account of the origins of hip-hop. From Jamaica and...
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Bartleby & Co.
by Enrique Vila Matas
Powells.com Staff Pick Enrique Vila-Matas, a Barcelona-born novelist, has won a number of international literary prizes, yet he remains somewhat obscure in English-speaking nations. Bartleby & Co., titled in reference to Melville's short story character, delves into the...
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Stone Raft (95 Edition)
by Jose Saramago
Powells.com Staff Pick Called "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" by critic Harold Bloom, Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This, the most fantastical of all his novels, is the lyrical and richly imagined tale of five strangers (and a...
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Crome Yellow (British Literature)
by Aldous Huxley
Powells.com Staff Pick Written when he was twenty-seven, Huxley's first novel is a cursory exploration into many of the thematic elements that would later mark his literary ouevre (existentialism, mysticism, modernism, etc). Set in early twentieth century England, on the...
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
by Italo Calvino
Powells.com Staff Pick Italo Calvino joined the Italian Resistance in 1943, and his experiences as a partisan during the final years of World War II helped shape the ideas he would use for his first novel, written four years later at the age of twenty-four. Set in Italy...
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