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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 …

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified …

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1)

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with …

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Faber paper covered editions)

We follow Esther Greenwood's personal life from her summer job in New York with Ladies' Day magazine, back through her …

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur is a novel written by Jack Kerouac, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told …

Novels 1930-1935 by William Faulkner (The Library of America -- 25)

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as …

Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel …

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of …

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …