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Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost …

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches …

A month in the country by J. L. Carr

A Month in the Country is the fifth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for …

The Aeneid by Publio Virgilio Marone

The Aeneid ( ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and …

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is …

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

George Eliot by George Eliot

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to …

Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (Harvest/HBJ book)

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of …

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and …

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live …