108 books
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94 voters
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.82 — 361,739 ratings — published 2019
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 565,505 ratings — published 2002
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 411,902 ratings — published 1925
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 533,773 ratings — published 2020
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,503,636 ratings — published 1915
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 208,502 ratings — published 2000
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 44,684 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 100,364 ratings — published 1972
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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avg rating 3.45 — 356,165 ratings — published 2019
El color de la Alegria (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 4.95 — 20 ratings — published
Pure Colour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 21,708 ratings — published 2022
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 618,704 ratings — published 1871
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,303,476 ratings — published 2011
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 19,384 ratings — published 2016
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,555,519 ratings — published 1943
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,651,470 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,477,389 ratings — published 1942
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,124,922 ratings — published 1932
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 615,285 ratings — published 1995
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 345,653 ratings — published 2009
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 56,849 ratings — published 2015
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 428,989 ratings — published 2007
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 431,007 ratings — published 2003
After Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 194,127 ratings — published 2004
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 199,488 ratings — published 1929
The White Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 39,764 ratings — published 2016
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 104,148 ratings — published 1996
Audition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 47,637 ratings — published 2025
Orbital (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 161,837 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 235,572 ratings — published 1985
Solenoid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,406 ratings — published 2015
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 77,148 ratings — published 1956
Life Ceremony (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 29,436 ratings — published 2019
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.45 — 31,335 ratings — published 2019
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 321,405 ratings — published 1994
Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)
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avg rating 3.36 — 9,366 ratings — published 2019
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 455,513 ratings — published 2021
Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944 - 1960 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Topics In Abstract Algebra (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 15 ratings — published
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 139,578 ratings — published 2022
Burned (Burned, #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 71,624 ratings — published 2006
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 42,240 ratings — published 1964
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 274,224 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 42,374 ratings — published 2011
Student Solutions Manual for Gallian's Contemporary Abstract Algebra, 7th (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 293 ratings — published 2009
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 823,219 ratings — published 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,132,465 ratings — published 1967
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 151,437 ratings — published 1994
The Plague (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 325,696 ratings — published 1947
Pedro Páramo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 106,762 ratings — published 1955
“How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a society utterly unlike our own. Those were the terms on which I wanted to encounter him; not as a distant and abstract being, but as the product of a particular culture, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then; a god shaped by their own physical circumstances, their own view of the world—and their own imaginations. Sitting in that lecture hall, it seemed to me that this potent figure had somehow been theorized away and replaced by the abstract being with whom we are more familiar today (…).”
― God: An Anatomy
― God: An Anatomy
“așteaptă-mă cântând!
dacă-ai venit la cină
dezleagă-ți câinii toți
răstoarnă-l în cer vinul
pentru stihiile albe
ale strugurilor (...)”
― Orbul de la Cină
dacă-ai venit la cină
dezleagă-ți câinii toți
răstoarnă-l în cer vinul
pentru stihiile albe
ale strugurilor (...)”
― Orbul de la Cină












