Fiction
Explore the best fiction books of all time, including top science fiction, fantasy, historical, and romantic novels. Find famous novels and best-selling titles at our online bookstore, offering the best books to read.
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Far Bright Star"Gleaming, spellbinding fiction . . . Terrifying and abruptly beautiful, the new novel gleams with a masculine intensity; it is hard to read and hard to put down."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. Terrain is unforgiving....
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Creatures of HabitJill McCorkle's new collection of twelve short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us-flawed, clueless, endearing. These stories are also animaled with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile-also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans share with the so-called lesser species?...
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A Contrived WorldSet in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator's imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each...
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Collected Short StoriesLike many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy's stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat...
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At Least We Can ApologizeAt Least We can Apologize focuses on an agency whose only purpose is to offer apologies--for a fee--on behalf of its clients. This seemingly insignificant service leads us into an examination of sin, guilt, and the often irrational demands of society. A kaleidoscope of...
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The House with a Sunken CourtyardAn occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War.Author: Kim Won-IlPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 11/16/2013Pages: 229Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.51w x 0.69dISBN: 9781564789136About the AuthorWon-Il, Kim:...
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Joseph Walser's MachineContinuing Tavares's award-winning Kingdom series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser's Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world's most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all:...
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Dolly CityGruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly City is widely recognized as one of the most disconcerting--and brilliant--literary works ever to come out of Israel.Author: Orly Castel-BloomPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 10/05/2010Pages: 167Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.50dISBN: 9781564786104Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/02/2010About the...
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Case ClosedCentered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, Case Closed is filled with all the expected elements of a thriller--murder, rape, suicide!--but soon reveals itself as a wily and sophisticated parable about the dangers of language itself, in which...
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The Splendor of PortugalThe Splendor of Portugal's four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us...
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Where the Air Is ClearWhere the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit...
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Country Where No One Ever DiesThe spare, unsentimental first novel by an extraordinary new voice in world literature.Author: Ornela VorpsiPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 109Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.74w x 0.36dISBN: 9781564785688Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/21/2009 pg. 38About the AuthorVorpsi, Ornela: - Ornela Vorpsi was born in...
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Garden, Ashes"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." Aleksandar Hemon, from the introductionAuthor: Danilo KisPublisher: Dalkey Archive...
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Magnetic Field(s)Organized around the idea that you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it, Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspective of a burglar in the midst of a robbery and travels through the thoughts and experiences...
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Age of Wire and String: StoriesIn "The Age of Wire and String," hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled...
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Locos: A Comedy of GesturesThe interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them," he complains, "reality is what fiction is to...
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Last DaysThe Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he...
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Hopeful Monsters-- A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual...
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RigadoonCompleted right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath.Author: Louis-Ferdinand CelinePublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 11/01/1997Pages: 273Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.51w x 0.78dISBN: 9781564781628About the AuthorCeline, Louis-Ferdinand: - Louis-Ferdinand Celine...
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The Honored DeadCmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, is in French Indochina in 1883 on a secret mission for President Chester Arthur. The novel opens with Wake aboard a riverboat on the Mekong River. The mission sounded simple in Washington: deliver the American president's reply...
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