Similar books (20)
-
The Elementary Particles
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary e…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Infinite Jest
A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
Buy this book on Amazon
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come … -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Nat Turner
The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resis…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Invisible Man
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightma…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Babel-17
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging s…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Assata: An Autobiography
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Rejection
An electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.
Buy this book on Amazon
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection i… -
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
Buy this book on Amazon
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declare… -
No One Is Talking About This
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet?
Buy this book on Amazon
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world t… -
Pale Fire
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
From the co-creator of the landmark television series Twin Peaks comes a novel that deepens the mysteries of that iconic town in ways that not only enrich the original series but readies fans for the …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Body High
Squirting across the sunburned landscape of Southern California, Body High is a journey marked by misplaced lust, mistaken fathers, lost semen, and the kidnapping of a sperm bank daughter, whose untai…
Buy this book on Amazon -
White Noise
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film starring Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, and Greta Gerwig
Buy this book on Amazon
White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his … -
Libra
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence , an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Buy this book on Amazon
In this … -
-
Bitter Water Opera
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it
Buy this book on Amazon
In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came acr… -
Taipei
"At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' - h…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1)
Romanen åpner med en svimlende beskrivelse av døden. Derfra fortelles det om forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgårds kamp for å mestre livet og seg selv og sine egne ambisjoner på skrivingens vegne, i møte me…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Room to Dream
In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime o…
Buy this book on Amazon