25 Unique Books

Discover 25 unique books that stand out from the rest! Explore this curated list of rare, unconventional, and extraordinary reads for every book lover.

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Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

From the esteemed author of "The Painted Bird" and "Being There" comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from …
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Gould's Book of Fish

by Richard Flanagan

In the early nineteenth century, forger and thief William Buelow Gould lands in prison in Australia, where the prison doctor utilizes his painting talents to …
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Hopscotch

by Julio Cortazar

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, …
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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed …
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Flaubert's parrot

 

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

by Alain De Botton

A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book …
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The Mezzanine

by Nicholson Baker

Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a …
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ID: 0892550589
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ID: 0865475407
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The Dead Father

by Donald Barthelme

The dead father, who is some 3,200 cubits long, is being hauled across the landscape by means of a cable pulled by nineteen or so …
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G.

by John Berger

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic …
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A Table of Green Fields

by Guy Davenport

A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some …
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ID: 0881842893
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