mckenna rated The Melancholy of Resistance: 4 stars
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in …
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mckenna rated One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.: 5 stars
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Books that matter)
mckenna rated The day lasts more than a hundred years: 5 stars
mckenna rated East of Eden: 5 stars
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
In his journal, Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity …
mckenna rated A wilder time: 3 stars
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
mckenna rated Farewell to Arms: 2 stars
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War …
mckenna rated Howl's Moving Castle: 3 stars
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
As the oldest daughter, willful, outspoken Sophie knew that her life could lead to nothing but mistakes. When her father …
mckenna rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and …
mckenna rated The Emperor of All Maladies: 4 stars
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician …
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by …
mckenna rated The Hot Zone: 4 stars
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (Dark Biology, #1)
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There …
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Counter Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons …
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer …
mckenna rated Rhythm of War: 4 stars
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #4)
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a …