Great books by wordsmiths

Discover a curated list of great books by masterful wordsmiths. Explore timeless literature and exceptional writing from the world's most talented authors.

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

 

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Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes ā€œan insistently metaphysical mind-benderā€ (The …
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the …
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The adventures of Augie March

 

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Herzog

by Saul Bellow

In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity …
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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

by Henry Miller

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection …
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The Air-conditioned Nightmare

by Henry Miller

His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

by Henry Miller

Tells the story of Miller's life on Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar …