notable things: several months of reading

Explore a curated list of notable books from several months of reading. Discover top recommendations and hidden gems for your next literary adventure.

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

by Michael Chabon

Chabon's "New York Times"-bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age story that introduces Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation.
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The Triggering Town

 

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the …
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Hunger

 

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Howl, and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

This collection of poems by Ginsberg created a sensation when it was first published in 1956, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing …
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The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse

Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all …
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Lunch Poems

by Frank O'Hara

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling …
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