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Snow country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple …

Improvisation by Derek Bailey

The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and …

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In …

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has …

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in …

What the dormouse said-- by John Markoff

An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the …

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (Pantheon modern writers)

It's been called an antinovel. Has 155 chapters 99 of which are designated as "expendable".

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border …

The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis

A novel of forgery, emotional and spiritual, as well as actual, with background ranging from New York and New England …

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #2)

Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special …

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter by Angela Carter