Sliced on the edge of cutting-edge fiction
Explore a curated list of cutting-edge fiction books that push literary boundaries. Discover avant-garde stories sliced from the edge of imagination—bold, innovative, and transformative reads for modern bibliophiles.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
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The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. Attacked by a force he cannot see and confronted …
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The History of Danish Dreams
by Peter Høeg
From the bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes his first novel--an inspired and often hilarious Danish family saga suffused with satire and magical …
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Only Revolutions
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New.
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The Aleph and Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges
Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, …
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Vampire Loves
by Joann Sfar
A collection of four graphic comics that follow the strange and romantic adventures of Ferdinand the vampire and his friends.
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Manalive
by G. K. Chesterton
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the …
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History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's …
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Battle Royale
by Kōshun Takami
This classic yet controversial Japanese novel is available for the first time in English--a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence that is a potent allegory …
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Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - …
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Bellwether
by Connie Willis
Connie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author. Now, with her trademark wit and inventiveness, she explores the …
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Fifty-four
by Wu Ming
In a tale set during the Cold War, Cary Grant is recruited by Her Majesty's Secret Service for a bizarre diplomatic mission, Lucky Luciano launches …
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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that …
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Liberty Meadows Volume 1: Eden
by Frank Cho
Back in print! Collecting the first nine issues of the award winning and totally uncensored Liberty Meadows with an all-new cover. Also featuring cover galleries …
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which “combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and …