Fiction that Screams off the page
Discover gripping fiction that screams off the page! Explore our curated list of intense, page-turning books that will keep you hooked from start to finish.
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Dancing After Hours
by Andre Dubus
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the …
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Finding a Girl in America
by Andre Dubus
Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between …
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Ask the Dust
by John Fante
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young …
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Kafka Was the Rage
by Anatole Broyard
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In …
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly …
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Stripper Lessons
by John O'Brien
The protagonist is a lonely, middle-aged law clerk whose only joy is a striptease joint where a dollar or two will win him affection. One …
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The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this inventive and unsettling novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of …
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Peter Camenzind
by Hermann Hesse
After a young writer leaves his Swiss mountain village to experience the world, his illusions are crushed by the suffering he witnesses, until a friendship …
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
by Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino's third novel is about the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and '60s, specifically the artists, writers, hangers-on, and the …
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In the Cut
by Susanna Moore
An attractive, sexually violent woman from New York begins a harrowing journey when she encounters a handsome man having sex in the basement of a …
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Lithium for Medea
by Kate Braverman
Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual …
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Women
by Charles Bukowski
Previously published: [Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press], 1978.
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Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible …
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Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, …
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Never Come Morning
by Nelson Algren
Never Come Morning is unique among the novels of Algren. The author's only romance, the novel concerns Bruno Bicek, a would-be boxer from Chicago's Northwest …
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The End Of Alice
by A.M. Homes
From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide …
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Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories established A. M. Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of …
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Her
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with …
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The Dancer Upstairs
by Nicholas Shakespeare
The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he …
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Piano Stories
by Felisberto Hernández
Inhabited by rich, eccentric characters and full of strange and surprising landscapes, this collection of short stories deeply influenced a generation of magical realists.If I …
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The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff
One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact …
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Atchley
by David Green
An author (named Atchley) has achieved critical acclaim by coupling an imagistically opulent narrative with a theoretical treatise on his own work. Now Atchley (this …
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of …