Great Overlooked/Under-Read Books

Discover hidden literary gems with our list of great overlooked and under-read books. Expand your reading list with these must-read titles that deserve more attention.

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Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6)

by Jack London

This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of …
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Time's Arrow

by Martin Amis

Story of Tod T. Friendly living in a peaceful American Suburb but once worked in the medical section of Auschwitz.
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American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, …
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On a Pale Horse

by Piers Anthony

In this first novel of the Incarnations of Immortality, Piers Anthony combines a gripping story of romance and conflicting loyalties with a deeply moving examination …
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Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Case, a burned-out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system, …
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The Drawing of the Dark

by Tim Powers

“Combining the best of mythology and real history, Tim Powers takes you on a rollicking magical adventure that is both tense and hilarious. You won’t …
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And no birds sang

 

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Women

by Charles Bukowski

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze …
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Brain droppings

 

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The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent …
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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

by Mark Leyner

Welcome to Mark Leyner’s America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and …
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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. …
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and …
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Post office

 

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