Dana's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:59:50 -0700 60 Dana's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[A Book Of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry]]> 145666 "A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw MiloszĚýCzesĹ‚aw MiĹ‚osz's A Book of Luminous Things—his personal selection of poems from the past and present—is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. MiĹ‚osz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as “Travel,â€� “History,â€� and “The Secret of a Thing,â€� that make the reading as instructional as it is inspirational and remind us how powerfully poetry can touch our minds and hearts. "
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352 Czesław Miłosz 0156005743 Dana 0 currently-reading 4.19 2009 A Book Of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
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<![CDATA[I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie]]> 50039 320 Pamela Des Barres 1556525893 Dana 4
As someone who was born and raised in the digital age, it seems pretty absurd to me that you could stalk rockstars and actually gain success from it - the Marlon Brando story had me laughing out loud. But Pamela des Barres captures the hedonism, excitement, and general newness of that era really well. It's engaging, silly, funny, and very sensual. Half the men she mentions should be locked away (and Dave Navarro as well for that weird, sexist introduction), but it's pretty fun romp, and the diary entries are a great touch. It only works because she's a good writer, and she writes without any inhibitions or need to seem above-it-all. She knows that a true groupie isn't. I like that she points out (in her 2005 addition) the new groupie culture has shifted into actresses and models pretending they're not groupies. There's something to be said for a culture of adoration that doesn't pretend they're not fawning and swooning. In this irony-poisoned, cynical age, while I might not yearn to be part of this drugged-out, blissful scene, there's definitely something to be said for the sheer earnestness of the rock world back then. ]]>
3.71 1987 I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
author: Pamela Des Barres
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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The kind of book you'll like strictly if you're into that thing. This was out of my wheelhouse, but in my opinion, the only reason it works is because des Barres writes with such distinctive style and doesn't take herself or her story too seriously at all. The sixties was an iconic era with iconic music - and a whole lot of flakiness, especially when it came to rock and groupie culture. It wasn't just the women who were flaky either. In my opinion, that was an all-around syndrome that pretty much everyone on that scene suffered from, but it made for good stories and good music.

As someone who was born and raised in the digital age, it seems pretty absurd to me that you could stalk rockstars and actually gain success from it - the Marlon Brando story had me laughing out loud. But Pamela des Barres captures the hedonism, excitement, and general newness of that era really well. It's engaging, silly, funny, and very sensual. Half the men she mentions should be locked away (and Dave Navarro as well for that weird, sexist introduction), but it's pretty fun romp, and the diary entries are a great touch. It only works because she's a good writer, and she writes without any inhibitions or need to seem above-it-all. She knows that a true groupie isn't. I like that she points out (in her 2005 addition) the new groupie culture has shifted into actresses and models pretending they're not groupies. There's something to be said for a culture of adoration that doesn't pretend they're not fawning and swooning. In this irony-poisoned, cynical age, while I might not yearn to be part of this drugged-out, blissful scene, there's definitely something to be said for the sheer earnestness of the rock world back then.
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<![CDATA[Popshot Quarterly Magazine, Issue 37, Autumn 2022: The Hauting Issue]]> 62111501
Words by: Al Crow, Benjamin Herriton, David Romanda, Annabel White, Ellora Sutton, Sophia Rubina Charalambous, Dan Spencer, Jonathan Greenhause, Dallon Robinson, Jeremy Smith, Julie-ann Rowell, Heather Walker, Fiona Eatwell, Alexandra Cîrstian, J M Miro, JP Relph, Simon Tindale, Jonathan Willmer, Joe Williams, Kay Young, Charlie Rose Evans, Rebecca Klassen, Megan Denton, Abigail Williams, Morgan Liphart, Simon Fairbanks

Illustrations by: Millie Baker, James Merritt, Andrew Haener, Guille Manchado, Daisy May Morgan, Rung Sheng Chou, Brooklin Holbrough, Torsten Carlisle, Gail Gosschalk, Mikayla Bader, Gary Venn, Sammi Shen, Neil Webb, Katie M Green, Laura Brannigan, Karen Stolper, Katelyn McKenna, Hayley Sinnatt, Kamal Kuz, Peter Roman, Dina Razin, Seb Westcott, Cyndy Patrick.]]>
82 Matilda Battersby Dana 0 currently-reading 3.57 2022 Popshot Quarterly Magazine, Issue 37, Autumn 2022: The Hauting Issue
author: Matilda Battersby
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Speaking with the Angel 38272
Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind collection of first-person narratives. Here are Melissa Bank, Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Colin Firth, Robert Harris, Patrick Marbis, John O'Farrell, Giles Smith, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh, and Nick Hornby himself.

"Speaking with the Angel" is the anthology of the year: hot... hilarious... lively... literary... and all original.]]>
233 Nick Hornby 1573228583 Dana 4 3.52 2000 Speaking with the Angel
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average rating: 3.52
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rating: 4
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Impossible Things 24987
The end of the world comes not with a bang but a series of whimpers over many years in "The Last of the Winnebagos."

The terror of pain and dying gives birth to a startling truth about the nature of the stars, a principle known as the "Schwarzschild Radius."

In "Spice Pogrom," an outrageous colony in outer space becomes the setting for a screwball comedy of bizarre complications, mistaken identities, far-too-friendly aliens--and even true love.

The last of the Winnebagos --
Even the queen --
Schwarzschild radius --
Ado --
Spice pogrom --
Winter's tale --
Chance --
In the late Cretaceous --
Time out --
Jack --
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461 Connie Willis Dana 4 3.93 1994 Impossible Things
author: Connie Willis
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average rating: 3.93
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The Galleons: Poems 43357302 For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism.

These poems are engaged in the work of recovery, making visible what is often intentionally erased: the movement of domestic workers on a weekday morning in Brooklyn; a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, fondly sharing photos of his dog; the departure and destination points of dozens of galleons between 1564 and 1815, these ships evoking both the vast movements of history and the individual journeys of those borne along by their tides. "Her story is a part of something larger, it is a part / of history," Barot writes of his grandmother. "No, her story is an illumination // of history, a matchstick lit in the black seam of time."

With nods toward Barot's poetic predecessors--from Frank O'Hara to John Donne--The Galleons represents an exciting extension and expansion of this virtuosic poet's work, marrying "reckless" ambition and crafted "composure," in which we repeatedly find the speaker standing and breathing before the world, "incredible and true."]]>
88 Rick Barot 1571315233 Dana 0 4.31 2020 The Galleons: Poems
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Sylvia 3914
Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.]]>
129 Leonard Michaels 0374271070 Dana 4 3.83 1992 Sylvia
author: Leonard Michaels
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average rating: 3.83
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]>
382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Dana 0 4.67 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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<![CDATA[Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)]]> 13538873
Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realizes just how curious this store is.

A few customers come in repeatedly without buying anything. Instead they “check out� obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. All runs according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes.

He embarks on a complex analysis of the customers� behavior and ropes in friends to help. Once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. A quest to New York City dips in a world conspiracy for eternal life. The current of romance pulls Clay onward.]]>
288 Robin Sloan 0374214913 Dana 4 3.71 2012 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
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average rating: 3.71
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Another Country 38474
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.]]>
448 James Baldwin 0141186372 Dana 5
I say this after each Baldwin novel, but this is maybe my favorite. Baldwin maintains the belief here that regardless of race, gender, sexuality, success, or marital status, life is filled with unbearable anguish for everyone -- no one gets out unscathed. It is almost impossible to face the burden of being alive, regardless of circumstance, and changing situation cannot alter this fundamental truth. Good intentions, he implies here, are not actually enough, not to save or protect anyone, and not even to save or protect yourself.

And yet, this novel isn't cynical or misanthropic. His works are somehow life-affirming because they believe in the power of truth, confrontation, and love. Love itself is rarely enough, a character says near the end of the novel. And no one can really save you from loneliness. All you can do is love each other and be each other's witness. In the world of Baldwin, this is not nothing. Just because we cannot save each other does not mean we do not need each other. His work is really painful, but undeniably beautiful. I'm so grateful for his writing. I'm gonna give Giovanni's Room and Go Tell It on the Mountain a reread, and the close out with Eddie Glaude Jr's Begin Again.]]>
4.32 1962 Another Country
author: James Baldwin
name: Dana
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1962
rating: 5
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This is a bittersweet moment, because this is the last of Baldwin's written works that I've read. There are certainly some essays out there that I haven't read yet, plenty of interviews to watch, and his screenplay about Malcolm X (I want to read the autobiography first).

I say this after each Baldwin novel, but this is maybe my favorite. Baldwin maintains the belief here that regardless of race, gender, sexuality, success, or marital status, life is filled with unbearable anguish for everyone -- no one gets out unscathed. It is almost impossible to face the burden of being alive, regardless of circumstance, and changing situation cannot alter this fundamental truth. Good intentions, he implies here, are not actually enough, not to save or protect anyone, and not even to save or protect yourself.

And yet, this novel isn't cynical or misanthropic. His works are somehow life-affirming because they believe in the power of truth, confrontation, and love. Love itself is rarely enough, a character says near the end of the novel. And no one can really save you from loneliness. All you can do is love each other and be each other's witness. In the world of Baldwin, this is not nothing. Just because we cannot save each other does not mean we do not need each other. His work is really painful, but undeniably beautiful. I'm so grateful for his writing. I'm gonna give Giovanni's Room and Go Tell It on the Mountain a reread, and the close out with Eddie Glaude Jr's Begin Again.
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The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]>
496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Dana 5 2018-reading-list, to-read 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
author: John Steinbeck
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Denton Little's Still Not Dead (Denton Little, #2)]]> 25397720 You only live once—unless you're Denton Little!

This amazingly funny YA novel is for fans of John Green, Andrew Smith, and Matthew Quick

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The good Denton Little has lived through his deathdate. Yay! The bad He's being chased by the DIA (Death Investigation Agency), he can never see his family again, and he may now die any time. Huh. Cheating death isn't quite as awesome as Denton would have thought...
Lance Rubin's debut novel, Denton Little's Deathdate, showed readers just how funny and poignant imminent death could be. Now in this sequel, he takes on the big questions about life. How do we cope, knowing we could die at any time? Would you save someone from dying even if they were a horrible person? Is it wrong to kiss the girl your best friend is crushing on if she's really into you instead?Ěý What if she's wearing bacon lip gloss?]]>
352 Lance Rubin 0553497022 Dana 5 3.79 Denton Little's Still Not Dead  (Denton Little, #2)
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The Best American Comics 2006 43555
Contributors include Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barry—and unique discoveries such as Justin Hall, Esther Pearl Watson, and Lilli Carré.]]>
293 Harvey Pekar 0618718745 Dana 4 3.86 2006 The Best American Comics 2006
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average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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Playhouse Creatures 157886 Excellent Book 80 April De Angelis 0573130078 Dana 4 3.70 1994 Playhouse Creatures
author: April De Angelis
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average rating: 3.70
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rating: 4
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Chariot 122215903 96 Timothy Donnelly 1950268810 Dana 4 4.61 Chariot
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<![CDATA[All Shall Mourn (None Shall Sleep, #3)]]> 220127403 The third and final book in the None Shall Sleep Sequence.

Simon Gutmunsson is on the loose... Since the disastrous events of the College Killer case, the FBI is coming to terms with the fact that while catching one sociopath, they've released another. Chillingly manipulative, frighteningly intelligent, and wholly insane, Simon Gutmunsson is the worst of the worst. Now he's free, and on the run with his twin sister Kristin, and nobody in the FBI is smart enough to keep up...


Travis Bell's last investigation for FBI Behavioral Science nearly killed him. Supported by family and his partner Emma Lewis, now Travis just needs to get back on his feet. But Emma has been recruited to help the FBI hunt the ultimate sociopath, Simon Gutmunsson, and there's no way Travis is letting her go into this battle alone...


Emma Lewis has gained some perspective on life, and as her emotional walls come down, she realizes that only by working as a perfect team will she and Travis have any chance of beating the Gutmunsson twins at their own terrifying game. So in a journey that will take them from Moroccan souks to Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations, the stage is set for Simon and Kristin and Emma and Travis to meet up in an epic final showdown.

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372 Ellie Marney 0648425835 Dana 4 4.08 2025 All Shall Mourn (None Shall Sleep, #3)
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<![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 2009]]> 6504161 Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

The idiot President / Daniel AlarcĂłn --
Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt --
Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein --
A shadow table / Alice Fulton --
NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld --
The farms / Eleanor Henderson --
Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek --
Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson --
The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta --
A man like him / Yiyun Li --
The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai --
Magic words / Jill McCorkle --
One dog year / Kevin Moffett --
Modulation / Richard Powers --
Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx --
Into the gorge / Ron Rash --
Ostracon / Alex Rose --
The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford --
Muzungu / Namwali Serpell --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 2008 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories]]>
368 Alice Sebold 0618792252 Dana 4 3.71 2009 The Best American Short Stories 2009
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average rating: 3.71
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The Nickel Boys 42270835 Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida.

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.

In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.

The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.

Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.]]>
213 Colson Whitehead Dana 5 4.25 2019 The Nickel Boys
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 23512999 495 Stephen King 1501111671 Dana 4 3.91 2015 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[The Fiddler in the Subway( The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts... and Other Virtuoso Performances by)[FIDDLER IN THE SUBWAY][Paperback]]]> 157437145 0 GeneWeingarten Dana 5 4.50 The Fiddler in the Subway( The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts... and Other Virtuoso Performances by)[FIDDLER IN THE SUBWAY][Paperback]
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average rating: 4.50
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<![CDATA[Purchase: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> 212723545 Purchase is for those who are grieving, who feel frightened by the world’s meanness, who are solitary. It is for those who, even in the midst of mourning, find themselves distracted from despair by the natural world. It is for everyone looking to find comfort and understanding. From a hidden river in upstate New York to a massive flood in Kentucky, currents of all strengths run through these poems, taking the reader through grief, estrangement, and the too-often unseen interiority of Black women, landing at a new perspective, the light of faith dawning.]]> 88 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 0822967294 Dana 3 4.00 Purchase: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
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<![CDATA[Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)]]> 52397
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.]]>
345 Octavia E. Butler 0446675504 Dana 4 4.21 1993 Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
author: Octavia E. Butler
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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The Art of the Poetic Line 2350158 Ěý
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens this provocative book with that essential statement. Through a range of examples—from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück—Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic, and free-verse poetry. The Art of the Poetic Line is a vital new resource by one of America's most important critics and most engaging poets.]]>
120 James Longenbach 1555974953 Dana 0 4.00 2007 The Art of the Poetic Line
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Granta 161: Sister, Brother 63339928 Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.]]> 251 Sigrid Rausing 1909889520 Dana 4 3.75 Granta 161: Sister, Brother
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We Run the Tides 53402121 An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoĚý

Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters—as well as the upscale all-girlsâ€� school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act—or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola’s sudden disappearance—a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths.ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý

Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida’s masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre–tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one’s authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.Ěý]]>
272 Vendela Vida 0062936239 Dana 4 3.62 2021 We Run the Tides
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average rating: 3.62
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rating: 4
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One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Dana 5 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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average rating: 4.10
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rating: 5
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Table for One 49151689
In these and other indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Her fiction is bursting with images that toe the line between realism and the fantastic. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists' decidedly mundane lives. Yun's stories focus on solitary city dwellers, and her eccentric, often dreamlike humor highlights their sense of isolation. Mixing quirky and melancholy commentary on densely packed urban life, she calls attention to the toll of rapid industrialization and the displacement of traditional culture. Acquainting the English-speaking audience with one of South Korea's breakout young writers, Table for One presents a parade of misfortunes that speak to all readers in their unconventional universality.]]>
280 Yun Ko-eun 0231192029 Dana 4 3.51 Table for One
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average rating: 3.51
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Pedro Páramo 38787
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.

Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.]]>
124 Juan Rulfo 0802133908 Dana 5 4.06 1955 Pedro Páramo
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name: Dana
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 5
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Du Fu: A Life in Poetry 5501213 Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter� of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work.

Du Fu wrote poems that engaged his contemporaries and widened the path of the lyric poet. As his society—one of the world’s great civilizations—slipped from a golden age into chaos, he wrote of the uncertain course of empire, the misfortunes and pleasures of his own family, the hard lives of ordinary people, the changing seasons, and the lives of creatures who shared his environment. As the poet chases chickens around the yard, observes tear streaks on his wife’s cheek, or receives a gift of some shallots from a neighbor, Young’s rendering brings Du Fu’s voice naturally and elegantly to life.

I sing what comes to me
in ways both old and modern

my only audience right now�
nearby bushes and trees

elegant houses stand
in an elegant row, too many

if my heart turns to ashes
then that’s all right with me . . .

from “Meandering River”]]>
256 Du Fu 0375711600 Dana 5 4.25 2013 Du Fu: A Life in Poetry
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average rating: 4.25
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart 53968588 512 Edward Hirsch 0544931882 Dana 5 3.74 2021 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
author: Edward Hirsch
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average rating: 3.74
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rating: 5
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The single most valuable book I read this year. I got through this collection by reading 1-3 poems a day for a few months, and it was always a great way to start my mornings. Hirsch breaks down each poem with a technical, line-level analysis, yet he never sounds stuffy or detached. He manages to maintain a deep connection to the emotional thesis of each poem, and his analysis doesn't disrupt the ineffable magic of poetry; it elevates it. I've loved reading poetry collections for years, but now I find myself more capable than ever of picking up on what a poet is really doing. It's made me a much smarter reader (and writer!) and I'm so thrilled that I gave this book a try.
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<![CDATA[Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems]]> 55298387

Meticulously orchestrated and musical in its forms, Playlist for the Apocalypse collects a dazzling array of voices: an elevator operator simmers with resentment, an octogenarian dances an exuberant mambo, a spring cricket philosophizes with mordant humor on hip hop, critics, and Valentine’s Day. Calamity turns all too personal in the book’s final section, “Little Book of Woe,� which charts a journey from terror to hope as Dove learns to cope with debilitating chronic illness.


At turns audaciously playful and grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to catastrophic failures of the human soul. Listen up, the poet says, speaking truth to power; what you’ll hear in return is “a lifetime of song.”]]>
114 Rita Dove 0393867773 Dana 4 4.08 2021 Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
author: Rita Dove
name: Dana
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 4
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Selected Poems 59480147 A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son,Ěýcontemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as “Little Siberiaâ€� with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei.ĚýIn his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.]]> 111 Ai Qing Dana 4 4.13 2021 Selected Poems
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average rating: 4.13
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<![CDATA[Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems]]> 1617419 158 Kenneth Rexroth 0811211789 Dana 4 4.30 1991 Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems
author: Kenneth Rexroth
name: Dana
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Selected Poems of Donald Hall]]> 23719372
Long-Listed for the 2016 National Book Award

Donald Hall was an American master, one of the nation’s most beloved and accomplished poets. Here, in his eighties, having taken stock of the body of his work—rigorous, gorgeous verse that is the result of seventy years of “ambition and pleasure”—he strips it down.Ěý

The Selected Poems of Donald Hall reflects the poet’s handpicked, concise selection, showcasing work rich with humor and eros and “a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines� (Billy Collins).

From the enduring “My Son My Executionerâ€� to “Names of Horsesâ€� to “Without,â€� Donald Hall’s best poems deliver “a banquet in the mouthâ€� (Charles Simic) and an “aching eleganceâ€� ( Baltimore Sun ).ĚýFor the first-time reader or an old friend, these are, above all others, the poems to read, reread, and remember. Ěý“However wrenching [Hall’s poems] may be from line to line, they tell a story that is essentially art and love are compatible, genius is companionable, and people stand by one another in the endâ€� ( New York Times Book Review ).Ěý Ěý]]>
160 Donald Hall 0544555600 Dana 5 4.33 2015 The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
author: Donald Hall
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average rating: 4.33
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Transformations 47734 112 Anne Sexton 061808343X Dana 4 4.14 1971 Transformations
author: Anne Sexton
name: Dana
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1971
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days]]> 29502605
For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales. For the Twelve Days of Christmas—a time of celebration, sharing, and giving—she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories. These tales give the reader a portal into the spirit of the season, where time slows down and magic starts to happen. From trees with mysterious powers to a tinsel baby that talks, philosophical fairies to flying dogs, a haunted house and a disappearing train, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. Perfect for reading by the fire with loved ones, or while traveling home for the holidays. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers.]]>
293 Jeanette Winterson 0802125832 Dana 4 3.98 2016 Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Dana
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Dark Domain (Essential Poets Series 102)]]> 2044443 Dark Domain.
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80 Eugénio de Andrade 1550711261 Dana 4 4.00 2000 Dark Domain (Essential Poets Series 102)
author: Eugénio de Andrade
name: Dana
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990]]> 256032 152 Eavan Boland 0393308227 Dana 4 4.16 1990 Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
author: Eavan Boland
name: Dana
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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Bonsai 3374076 "Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics� Award for Best Novel"

Now a Major Motion Picture

Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, “a simple story that becomes complicated.�

Through both the distance and closeness of these young lovers, Alejandro Zambra brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. Bonsai is accessible yet profound—as one critic in Chile’s Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.�
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83 Alejandro Zambra 193363362X Dana 5 3.71 2006 Bonsai
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name: Dana
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 5
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Musical Tables: Poems 59900080 A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence--from the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love.

Whenever I open a book of poems, I tend to flip through looking for the small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract expressionist painter if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I trust poets who can go short. --Billy Collins

You can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He puts the 'fun' back in profundity, says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to start in Kansas and end in Oz.

Now America's favorite poet (The Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins's recognizable wit and wisdom, the more than 125 new poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career.

3:00 AM

Only my hand
is asleep,
but it's a start.]]>
176 Billy Collins 0399589783 Dana 4 3.77 2022 Musical Tables: Poems
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average rating: 3.77
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<![CDATA[Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood]]> 36627668 Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood.

Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man—which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac—includes a foreword by Baldwin’s nephew Tejan "TJ"ĚýKarefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child’s perspective, butĚýwe also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America’s greatest writers.]]>
120 James Baldwin 147800004X Dana 4 4.28 1976 Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
author: James Baldwin
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> 36459676
From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human , winner of the National Book Award for poetry

LakeĚýMichigan ,Ěýa series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, LakeĚýMichigan 's poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky's Performance of Becoming Human , winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. But while the influences in this book (CĂ©saire, Vallejo, Neruda) are international, the focus here is local as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.Ěý Named a 2018 Best Book of the Year by the New York Public Library.Ěý]]>
88 Daniel Borzutzky 0822965224 Dana 5 4.20 2018 Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series)
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average rating: 4.20
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rating: 5
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The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets) 16171274 A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in Poetry—aĚýcollection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson

The legendary Jack Johnson (1878�1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.]]>
128 Adrian Matejka 0143123726 Dana 5 4.04 2013 The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets)
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One Hidden Stuff 467289
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96 Barbara Ras 0143037854 Dana 4 4.02 2006 One Hidden Stuff
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The World's Wife 902792 Be terrified.
It's you I love,
perfect man,
Greek God, my own;
but I know you'll go,
betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for
me if you were stone.
—from "Medusa"

Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfriends of famous—and infamous—male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history, then subverting them in a vivid and surprising way to create poems that have the pull of the past and the crack of the contemporary.
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76 Carol Ann Duffy 057119995X Dana 4 4.14 1999 The World's Wife
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average rating: 4.14
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Dept. of Speculation 17402288
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art.

With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.]]>
179 Jenny Offill 0385350813 Dana 5 3.76 2014 Dept. of Speculation
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average rating: 3.76
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<![CDATA[Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2024 (Volume 225, Number 2)]]> 221284924 Adedayo Agarau
HĂĽseyin Alhas
Darius Atefat-Peckham
Rose Ausländer
Annette C. Boehm
Anders Carlson-Wee
Andrea Cohen
Jayne Cortez
Josh English
Molly Fisk
Graham Foust
Mag Gabbert
Jane Hirshfield
Carlie Hoffman
Randall Mann
Lara Mimosa Montes
Harryette Mullen
RĂĽĹźtĂĽ Onur
Triin Paja
Noelani Piters
Mairead Small Staid
Othuke Umukoro
Adam Wolfond
UlaĹź Ă–zgĂĽn
Sapphire]]>
Adrian Matejka Dana 0 to-read 3.81 Poetry Foundation Magazine, November 2024 (Volume 225, Number 2)
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Eileen 23453099 So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys� prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.]]>
260 Ottessa Moshfegh 1594206627 Dana 4 3.57 2015 Eileen
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: Dana
average rating: 3.57
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Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Dana 4 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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name: Dana
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story]]> 204316857 The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.

In September 1913, MieczysĹ‚aw, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort inĚýGörbersdorf, what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?

Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone—or something—seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysław realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.

A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore, and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.]]>
320 Olga Tokarczuk 0593712943 Dana 4 3.66 2022 The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
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average rating: 3.66
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Couscous Express 235647 80 Brian Wood 0970936028 Dana 3 3.37 2001 Couscous Express
author: Brian Wood
name: Dana
average rating: 3.37
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rating: 3
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INRI 7158214 120 RaĂşl Zurita 1934851043 Dana 5 4.53 2003 INRI
author: RaĂşl Zurita
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average rating: 4.53
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women�, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]>
448 Caroline Criado PĂ©rez 1419729071 Dana 0 to-read 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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<![CDATA[Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures]]> 13237099 Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion.

Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.]]>
326 Mary Ruefle 1933517573 Dana 0 to-read 4.43 2012 Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
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Erasure 355862 We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitative debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Hailed as an authentic representation of the African American experience, the book is a national bestseller and its author feted on the Kenya Dunston television show. The book's success rankles all the more as Monk's own most recent novel has just notched its seventh rejection.

Even as his career as a writer appears to have stalled, Monk finds himself coping with changes in his personal life. In need of distraction from old memories, new responsibilities, and his professional stagnation, Monk composes, in a heat of inspiration and energy, a fierce parody of the sort of exploitative, ghetto wanna-be lit represented by We's Lives in Da Ghetto.

But when his agent sends this literary indictment (included here in its entirety) out to publishers, it is greeted as an authentic new voice of black America. Monk -- or his pseudonymous alter ego, Stagg R. Leigh -- is offered money, fame, success beyond anything he has known. And as demand begins to build for meetings with and appearances by Leigh, Monk is faced with a whole new set of problems.]]>
280 Percival Everett 0786888156 Dana 5 4.17 2001 Erasure
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name: Dana
average rating: 4.17
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<![CDATA[My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)]]> 55711617
That’s not the only thing that’s getting carved up, though � this, Jade knows, is the start of a slasher. But what kind? Who’s wearing the mask? Jade’s got an encyclopedic recall of every horror movie on the shelf, but� will that help her survive? Can she get a final girl trained enough to stop all this from happening? Does she even want to?

Isn’t a slasher exactly what her hometown deserves?

This new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, called “one of our most talented living writers� by Tommy Orange, explores the changing landscape of the West through his distinct voice of sharp humor and prophetic violence.

Go up the mountain to Proofrock. See if you’ve got what it takes � see if your heart, too, might be a chainsaw.]]>
405 Stephen Graham Jones 1982137630 Dana 3 3.52 2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
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<![CDATA[Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book]]> 51008942 108 Clarissa T. Sligh 149519695X Dana 0 5.00 Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book
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The Argonauts 22929741
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.

Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.]]>
160 Maggie Nelson 1555977073 Dana 4 4.04 2015 The Argonauts
author: Maggie Nelson
name: Dana
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)]]> 432 City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense.

Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.

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203 Paul Auster 0140097317 Dana 4 3.79 1985 City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
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Autobiography of Death 38458431 Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.� Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you� speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,� a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.]]> 110 Kim Hyesoon 0811227340 Dana 3 4.09 2016 Autobiography of Death
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Book of Longing 158005 240 Leonard Cohen 0771022298 Dana 5 4.03 2006 Book of Longing
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<![CDATA[Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City]]> 1396370 284 Deborah Epstein Nord 0801482917 Dana 4 3.70 1995 Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler]]> 374233 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration�"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.

The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches—stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition—with explorations of how and why we choose to read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."]]>
260 Italo Calvino Dana 5 4.06 1979 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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<![CDATA[Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde]]> 40523115
Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.”]]>
217 Oscar Wilde Dana 5 4.12 1888 Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde
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Call It Sleep 366524 Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.

Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative� child coming of age in the slums of New York.]]>
462 Henry Roth 0374522928 Dana 4 3.82 1934 Call It Sleep
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Sleeping With the Dictionary 95874
Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."]]>
104 Harryette Mullen 0520231430 Dana 3 3.98 2002 Sleeping With the Dictionary
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Trust Exercise 52381081
The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true--though it's not false, either. It takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place--revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.

As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi's Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.]]>
257 Susan Choi 1250231264 Dana 4 3.13 2019 Trust Exercise
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Heart of Darkness 4900
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]>
188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 Dana 4 2018-reading-list 3.43 1899 Heart of Darkness
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Topics of Conversation 45754997
“Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls' night." � O, The Oprah Magazine
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A Best Book of the Year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Glamor, Bustle , and more
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Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves� Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.]]>
224 Miranda Popkey 0525656286 Dana 3 2.79 2020 Topics of Conversation
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average rating: 2.79
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Probably liked this more than most on this site. I think it's a really promising debut, and there were many ideas that I found to be resonant and profound, but then there were other moments where I felt it was trying too hard. Some things didn't ring true, and there were other points that felt provocative without feeling insightful, like they were trying to be somewhat shocking but came off feeling false. Still, I like reading a book like this that takes a massive swing and occasionally hits and occasionally misses than one that's more polished but feels more hollow. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more by Miranda Popkey.
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The Masterpiece 28409 The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.]]> 400 Émile Zola 0192839632 Dana 4 4.00 1886 The Masterpiece
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The Devil Finds Work: Essays 743831
Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man...ĚýĚýThese are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin...ĚýĚýand now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies.

Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist, offering us a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions.ĚýĚýHere are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and shaped our consciousness.ĚýĚýAnd here, too, is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.

From The Birth of a Nation to The Exorcist --one of America's most important writers turns his critical eye to American film.]]>
144 James Baldwin 0385334605 Dana 5 4.27 1976 The Devil Finds Work: Essays
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 35031085 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847.

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]>
260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 Dana 5 4.02 1818 Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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YOU 189187303 Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it “gathers itself over time to become whole,â€� recovering the speaker’s intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman'sĚýsurvival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.]]> 88 Rosa Alcalá 1566897017 Dana 4 4.45 YOU
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Robinson Crusoe 2932 320 Daniel Defoe Dana 2 3.69 1719 Robinson Crusoe
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average rating: 3.69
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rating: 2
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The Cow 871022

This text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. "I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her."

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109 Ariana Reines 0977106470 Dana 0 to-read 4.21 2006 The Cow
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Burn 50175239 On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm�
Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.
The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.
Because the dragon knows something she doesn’t. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit—and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.]]>
371 Patrick Ness 0062869493 Dana 4 3.69 2020 Burn
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War of the Foxes 21532793 49 Richard Siken 1556594771 Dana 4 4.15 2015 War of the Foxes
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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A Farewell to Arms 10799 A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.]]> 293 Ernest Hemingway 0099910101 Dana 5 3.83 1929 A Farewell to Arms
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rating: 5
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Point Omega 6595144
Don DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review). In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual", one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.

Richard Elster was a scholar—an outsider—when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency".

We see Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. Finley wants to persuade Elster to make a one-take film, Elster its single character�"Just a man and a wall."

Weeks later, Elster's daughter Jessica visits—an "otherworldly" woman from New York, who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. The three of them talk, train their binoculars on the landscape, and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question.

In this compact and powerful novel, it is finally a lingering human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.]]>
117 Don DeLillo 1439169950 Dana 4 3.46 2010 Point Omega
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Leaving the Atocha Station 11100788
In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.]]>
181 Ben Lerner Dana 0 to-read 3.81 2011 Leaving the Atocha Station
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Late Fame 27390373 First English publication of a recently rediscovered novella by one of the greatest European writers

One seemingly ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger arrives home to find the fulfilment of a long-forgotten wish in his sitting room: a visitor has come to tell him that the youth of Vienna have discovered his poetic genius. Saxberger has written nothing for thirty years, yet he now realises that he is more than merely an Unremarkable Civil Servant, after all: a Venerable Poet, for whom Late Fame is inevitable � if, that is, his new acolytes are to be believed�

Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most admired, provocative European writers of the twentieth century. The Nazis attempted to burn all of his work, but his archive was miraculously saved, and with it, Late Fame. Never published before, it is a treasure, a perfect satire of literary self-regard and charlatanism.

Arthur Schnitzler (b. 1862 in Vienna) was one of the most influential European writers of the twentieth century, perhaps best known here for his novellas Dream Story and Fräulein Else. He qualified as a doctor but was increasingly driven to a career in writing, resulting in several celebrated plays, novellas and novels which explore the great existential subjects of the modern age: relationships, love, sex, ageing and death. Because his work dealt with subjects considered taboo, he frequently attracted the hostility of the authorities, consequently losing his position as Chief Medic in the Reserve Army and being tried for disorderly conduct. Schnitzler was close friends with Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud, who both admired him greatly, and a member of the 'Young Vienna' circle of writers who regularly met at a café nicknamed 'Café Megalomania' - the very same clique and café he satirises so deliciously in Late Fame. Schnitzler died in 1931.

Pushkin Press also publishes his novellas Fräulein Else, Dying and Casanova's Return to Venice.

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120 Arthur Schnitzler 1782272208 Dana 4 3.88 2014 Late Fame
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Genderqueer - en selvbiografi 180565457
Med sin egen personlige historie som utgangspunkt, tar Kobabe oss med på en reise gjennom sin oppdagelse av sin egen kjønnsidentitet. Boken er et intimt og modig portrett av en kunstners kamp for å finne seg selv og akseptere sin egen unike identitet.

Genderqueer har blitt hyllet av kritikere og lesere over hele verden for sin åpenhet, ærlighet og sitt kraftfulle budskap. The Guardian beskrev boken som en viktig, smertefull og dypt personlig bok, mens Publisher's Weekly kalte den modig og rørende. For boken ble Kobabe tildelt Stonewall Book Award og Alex Award. Kobabe har også blitt nominert til flere prestisjetunge priser, inkludert Eisner-prisen og Lambda Literary Award.

Nå er Genderqueer endelig tilgjengelig på norsk, og det er en glede å kunne introdusere denne unike og viktige boken til et nytt publikum. Boken er en sterk påminnelse om at alle fortjener å bli elsket og akseptert for den de er, uansett kjønn eller identitet.

Genderqueer er en bok som vil berøre og inspirere deg, og som vil forandre måten du tenker om kjønn og identitet. En bok som er både gripende og viktig, og som vil bli stående som en klassiker innenfor tegneseriebøker.]]>
240 Maia Kobabe 8269248827 Dana 4 4.35 2019 Genderqueer - en selvbiografi
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Young Mungo 58891551
As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.

Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.]]>
390 Douglas Stuart 0802159559 Dana 5 4.38 2022 Young Mungo
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Nothing Personal 55629665 James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.

Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020--which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy--Baldwin's documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today.

Baldwin's thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America's fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Both explore and situate the essay within the broader context of Baldwin's work, the Movement for Black Lives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidency of Donald Trump.

Nothing Personal is both a eulogy and a declaration of will. In bringing this work into the twenty-first century, readers new and old will take away fundamental and recurring truths about life in the US. It is both a call to action, and an appeal to love and to life.]]>
83 James Baldwin 0807006424 Dana 5 4.67 1964 Nothing Personal
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The Lost Daughter 1058564
But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina’s family.]]>
140 Elena Ferrante 1933372427 Dana 4 3.70 2006 The Lost Daughter
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Marcovaldo 18929 128 Italo Calvino Dana 4 3.83 1963 Marcovaldo
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average rating: 3.83
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<![CDATA[Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)]]> 92250
The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.]]>
119 Tony Kushner 1559360615 Dana 5 4.27 1993 Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
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average rating: 4.27
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<![CDATA[The Best of It: New and Selected Poems]]> 5974575 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder.� The two hundred poems in Ryan’s The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.
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265 Kay Ryan 080211914X Dana 4 4.12 2010 The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
author: Kay Ryan
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Treasure Island!!! 12358020 Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?



Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.

Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice-intelligent, perverse, relentlessly self- extricating, and funny.

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172 Sara Levine 1609450612 Dana 4 3.35 2011 Treasure Island!!!
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<![CDATA[As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)]]> 56905097 The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...]]>
500 Holly Jackson 0593379853 Dana 3 4.20 2021 As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
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average rating: 4.20
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<![CDATA[Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)]]> 51335759
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?]]>
413 Holly Jackson 1405297751 Dana 4 4.27 2020 Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
author: Holly Jackson
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average rating: 4.27
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<![CDATA[A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)]]> 40916679
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.]]>
433 Holly Jackson 1405293187 Dana 3 4.30 2019 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
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average rating: 4.30
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The Song of Achilles 11250317
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.]]>
352 Madeline Miller 1408816032 Dana 5 2018-reading-list 4.38 2011 The Song of Achilles
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average rating: 4.38
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rating: 5
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Wise Blood 48467 This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631)

The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles.

This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.]]>
256 Flannery O'Connor 0374530637 Dana 5 3.84 1952 Wise Blood
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<![CDATA[The Secret of Superhuman Strength]]> 34725370
The secret to superhuman strength.

She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weightlifting - you name it, she's tried it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"

But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it . . .

In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world.]]>
Alison Bechdel Dana 5 4.26 2021 The Secret of Superhuman Strength
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average rating: 4.26
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Purple Hibiscus 14569052 A previously published edition of ISBN 9781616202415 can be found here.

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating.

As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins� laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.]]>
336 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1616202416 Dana 4 4.18 2003 Purple Hibiscus
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average rating: 4.18
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Just Above My Head 38457 Ěý
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.�
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The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novelĚý Go Tell It on the Mountain , to the forbidden passion ofĚý Giovanni’s Room , and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.]]>
584 James Baldwin 0385334567 Dana 5 4.44 1979 Just Above My Head
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average rating: 4.44
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Desperate Characters 23316532
First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature.]]>
192 Paula Fox 0393351106 Dana 0 to-read 3.49 1970 Desperate Characters
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<![CDATA[The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander]]> 223322 188 Milorad Pavić 0679420851 Dana 3 4.01 1991 The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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Swinging on a Star 34146629 The Flintstones) is the title poem of the first section, followed by a Neruda-esque ode to singer Buddy Holly.]]> 84 David Trinidad 1933527978 Dana 5 4.21 2017 Swinging on a Star
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average rating: 4.21
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rating: 5
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