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The Beautiful Bureaucrat

The Beautiful Bureaucrat

ByHelen Phillips

2015 • 19 Readers • 180 pages • 3.2

Hum

ByHelen Phillips

2024 • 52 Readers • 272 pages • 3.4

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 of 1 in Strange & Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

BySusanna Clarke

2004 • 1,009 Readers • 1,028 pages • 4

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

ByRaymond Carver

1981 • 168 Readers • 146 pages • 4

Station Eleven

ByEmily St. John Mandel

2014 • 1,479 Readers • 333 pages • 4.1

Sky Full of Elephants

Sky Full of Elephants

ByCebo Campbell

2024 • 18 Readers • 288 pages

North Woods

ByDaniel Mason

2023 • 157 Readers • 385 pages • 4.3

Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

ByRansom Riggs

2024 • 7 Readers

America Fantastica

America Fantastica

ByTim O'Brien

2023 • 35 Readers • 3.2

Say Hello to My Little Friend

Say Hello to My Little Friend

ByJennine Capo Crucet

2024 • 6 Readers

The Golem and the Jinni

#1 of 2 in The Golem and the Jinni

The Golem and the Jinni

ByHelene Wecker

2013 • 445 Readers • 486 pages • 4.2

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

The Shadow of the Torturer

ByGene Wolfe

1980 • 405 Readers • 276 pages • 3.6

Playground

ByRichard Powers

2024 • 21 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction

Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction

ByThom Dancer

2021 • 1 Reader • 215 pages

Before and After the Book Deal

Before and After the Book Deal

ByCourtney Maum

2020 • 10 Readers • 365 pages

Novels by David Mitchell (Study Guide): Ghostwritten, Number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green

Novels by David Mitchell (Study Guide): Ghostwritten, Number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green

ByBooks LLC(Editor)

2010 • 36 pages

The Moviegoer

ByWalker Percy

1961 • 83 Readers • 242 pages • 3.5

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,179 Readers • 210 pages • 3.9

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

ByCharles Bukowski

2002 • 7 Readers • 395 pages • 2.8

Glory Days: Stories

Glory Days: Stories

BySimon Rich

2024 • 1 Reader

The Cat and The City

The Cat and The City

ByNick Bradley

2020 • 26 Readers • 4.2

The Incarnations

The Incarnations

BySusan Barker

2014 • 31 Readers • 400 pages • 3.4

The Third Hotel

The Third Hotel

ByLaura van den Berg

2018 • 24 Readers • 224 pages • 4

Volt

ByAlan Heathcock

2011 • 1 Reader • 207 pages

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

ByHaruki Murakami,Philip Gabriel(Translator)

2023 • 42 Readers • 448 pages • 3.7

Pale Fire

ByVladimir Nabokov

1945 • 291 Readers • 282 pages • 4.3

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories

A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories

ByDaniel Mason

2020 • 7 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Voice and Style

Elements of Fiction Writing

Voice and Style

ByJohnny Payne

1995 • 2 Readers • 176 pages

Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow

ByThomas Pynchon

1973 • 379 Readers • 760 pages • 4.2

ByThomas Pynchon

1963 • 123 Readers • 500 pages • 4.1

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The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way

ByJulia Cameron

2002 • 1 Reader • 203 pages

If Cats Disappeared from the World

If Cats Disappeared from the World

ByGenki Kawamura

2012 • 183 Readers • 4h 49m • 3.7

Big Magic

ByElizabeth Gilbert

2015 • 231 Readers • 5 pages • 3.8

The crow road

ByIain Banks

1992 • 56 Readers • 501 pages • 4.3

Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities

ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1972 • 306 Readers • 182 pages • 4.1

I Am Radar

ByReif Larsen

2014 • 9 Readers • 656 pages

Reality Hunger

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

ByDavid Shields

2010 • 27 Readers • 240 pages • 3.5

The Order of Time

The Order of Time

ByCarlo Rovelli

2017 • 191 Readers • 172 pages • 3.8

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Night of the spider monkey

Night of the spider monkey

ByHaruki Murakami

1 Reader

Time Out of Joint

Time Out of Joint

ByPhilip K. Dick

1959 • 55 Readers • 187 pages • 3.9

Gitanjali

ByRabindranath Tagore

1910 • 26 Readers • 80 pages • 4

ByMartin Amis

1992 • 40 Readers • 3.3

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

ByHermann Hesse,Michael Roloff(Translator),+1 more

1919 • 164 Readers • 119 pages • 4.2

Entitlement

ByRumaan Alam

17 Readers • 276 pages

I Cheerfully Refuse

I Cheerfully Refuse

ByLeif Enger

2024 • 59 Readers • 336 pages • 4

The Companions

ByKatie M. Flynn

2020 • 20 Readers • 272 pages • 2.5

The Other Valley

The Other Valley

ByScott Alexander Howard

2024 • 97 Readers • 284 pages • 3.7

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks

ByDavid Mitchell

2014 • 301 Readers • 595 pages • 3.9

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

The Shadow of the Wind

ByCarlos Ruiz Zafón,Lucia Graves(Translator)

2001 • 937 Readers • 487 pages • 4.1

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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Byunknown author

1 Reader

The Tin Drum

#1 of 3 in Die Danziger Trilogie

ByGünter Grass,Breon Mitchell(Translator)

1959 • 105 Readers • 592 pages • 4.2

The Prophet

ByKahlil Gibran

1923 • 246 Readers • 240 pages • 4.3

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

1991 • 78 Readers • 341 pages • 4.4

Goddess of the River

Goddess of the River

ByVaishnavi Patel

2024 • 39 Readers • 496 pages

Kaikeyi

ByVaishnavi Patel

2022 • 326 Readers • 496 pages • 4.1

Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty: Selected Verses

Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty: Selected Verses

ByVictor Hugo

2019 • 1 Reader

Life After Life

#1 of 2 in Todd Family

Life After Life

ByKate Atkinson

2013 • 303 Readers • 544 pages • 3.7

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

BySalman Rushdie

2024 • 68 Readers • 225 pages • 4

How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

ByHoward Mittelmark,Sandra Newman

2008 • 15 Readers • 262 pages • 4.2

The Divine Invasion

The Divine Invasion

ByPhilip K. Dick

44 Readers • 4

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

#3 of 3 in VALIS Trilogy

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

ByPhilip K. Dick

1982 • 41 Readers • 265 pages • 4.1

Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist

Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist

ByPaulo Coelho

1994 • 5 Readers • 0.5

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

ByKawai Strong Washburn

2020 • 72 Readers • 376 pages • 4.2

The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers

Believer Books of Writers Talking to Writers

The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers

BySarah Stone

2005 • 1 Reader • 454 pages

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

ByR. F. Kuang

2022 • 1,925 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

Steppenwolf

ByHermann Hesse,Basil Creighton(Translator)

1927 • 301 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

To The Lighthouse: by Virginia Woolf

To The Lighthouse: by Virginia Woolf

ByVirginia Woolf

1927 • 1 Reader • 174 pages

The art of fiction : illustrated from classic and modern texts

The art of fiction : illustrated from classic and modern texts

ByDavid Lodge

1992 • 9 Readers • 256 pages

Jailbird

ByKurt Vonnegut

67 Readers • 3.7

On Writing

ByA. L. Kennedy

2013 • 372 pages

How Fiction Works

How Fiction Works

ByJames Wood

2008 • 29 Readers • 265 pages • 3.8

Playtime's Over

Playtime's Over

ByJames Kinsley

2021 • 1 Reader • 95 pages

Mickey7

#1 of 2 in Mickey7

ByEdward Ashton

2022 • 196 Readers • 284 pages • 3.6

The Morningside

The Morningside

ByTéa Obreht

2024 • 19 Readers

The Book of Love

The Book of Love

ByKelly Link

2024 • 100 Readers • 641 pages • 3.6

Lanark

ByAlasdair Gray

1981 • 48 Readers • 573 pages • 4.1

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell

ByCarlos Rojas,Edith Grossman(Translator)

1980 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Beyond the Sea

ByPaul Lynch

2019 • 2 Readers • 192 pages

Novelist as a Vocation

Novelist as a Vocation

ByHaruki Murakami

2022 • 57 Readers • 208 pages • 3.5

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

ByMatthew Carl Strecher

2014 • 2 Readers • 296 pages

Scenes from a Childhood

Scenes from a Childhood

ByJon Fosse

2018 • 3 Readers • 153 pages • 4

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

ByKazuo Ishiguro

1989 • 658 Readers • 258 pages • 4.2

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

ByKazuo Ishiguro

2015 • 321 Readers • 317 pages • 3.5

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

ByKazuo Ishiguro

2000 • 1,421 Readers • 282 pages • 3.8

Norwegian Wood

ByHaruki Murakami,Jay Rubin

1987 • 1,112 Readers • 389 pages • 3.9

1Q84: Book 1

#1 of 3 in 1Q84

いちきゅうはちよん [Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon]

ByHaruki Murakami

2009 • 299 Readers • 554 pages • 3.8

The Gospel According to the New World

The Gospel According to the New World

ByMaryse Condé,Richard Philcox(Translator)

2021 • 2 Readers • 259 pages

Whale

ByCheon Myeong-Kwan,Chi-Young Kim(Translator)

2023 • 11 Readers • 4

Time Shelter

ByGeorgi Gospodinov,Angela Rodel(Translator)

2020 • 66 Readers • 3.5

Collected Stories

Collected stories

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator),+1 more

1983 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 4

Strange Pilgrims

Strange Pilgrims

ByGabriel García Márquez

1992 • 40 Readers • 192 pages • 4