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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Thank You for SmokingNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He's a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco...
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The Palace Thief"Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm."-The Washington Post "Character is destiny," wrote Heraclitus-and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected...
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The Devil's CompanyFrom the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a stunning new thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire and master of disguise Benjamin Weaver finds himself...
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Faith for BeginnersAn acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown-and an epiphany. In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife...
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Invisible ManAn African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.Author: Ralph Waldo EllisonPublisher: Perfection LearningPublished: 03/01/1995Pages: 581Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.20dISBN: 9780812418163Accelerated Reader:Reading...
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The ChandelierFresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It...
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The Ballad of Peckham RyeThe Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do "human research" into the lives of the...
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MicroscriptsRobert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or...
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The Secret of EvilA North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi...
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GeorgianaGeorgiana is a girl. The printer who printed her thought she was quite a girl, and we readily agree. But don't interpret "quite" to mean "bad." A girl with as much brain and flair as Georgiana doesn't have to be bad to make her...
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Billancourt TalesThese fine stories, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, portray a wide range of human emotions. All show Berberova at her very best, "as graceful and subtle as Chekhov" (Anne Tyler).Author: Nina BerberovaPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 07/07/2009Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.60h x 4.90w x...
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Tales of Desire"I cannot write any sort of story," said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] "unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire." These transgressive Tales of Desire, including "One Arm," "Desire and the Black Masseur," "Hard Candy," and "The...
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Blue Light in the Sky & Other StoriesA selection of harsh, sometimes violent, and often surreal stories by the premier young avant-garde Chinese woman writer. A couple moves with their young daughter to the seaside, only to be terrorized by hostile townsfolk, predatory seabirds, and the persistent sound of the waves....
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Fresno StoriesSelected from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (The Man With the Heart In the Highlands) and his later work (Madness In the Family), Fresno Stories spans his whole remarkable career.Author: William SaroyanPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/17/1994Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 7.08h...
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The Missing Head of Damasceno MonteiroAntonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to...
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The Blue Lantern: And Other StoriesIn a recent New York Times Magazine feature article, Victor Pelevin was cited as almost alone among his generation of Russian novelists in speaking with a voice authentically his own, and in trying to write about Russian life in its current idiom. Since the...
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Stories of Happy PeopleWhat is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafsson's Stories of Happy People is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. "Uncle Sven and the Cultural...
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German LessonSiggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the The Joys of Duty. Overfamiliar with these "joys," Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his...
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Except the Lord: NovelJoyce Cary (1888-1957) is indisputably one of the finest English novelists of this century. His reputation at his death equaled those of such contemporaries as Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh. Written in his last years, his "Second Trilogy" (Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord,...
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Earth House HoldAs a poet, Snyder tells us, I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of...
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