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10 best books like Sophia (Michael Bible): What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems, Insel, With My Dog Eyes, Better Than Running at Night, The Reflection, The Union Jack, Traditori di tutti, Rules for Werewolves, Lou Reed: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393327094
Reading poetry from a familiar poet and knowing it's going to be good is one thing, reading poetry from a poet you know nothing about and being blown away is quite another. Kim Addonizio has reaffirmed my faith that poetry in the 21st century is alive and kicking. Her verse is down to earth, dealing with...
Insel
AuthorMina Loy
ISBN0876858531
“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”

Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.

German painter...
With My Dog Eyes
AuthorHilda Hilst
ISBN1612193455
A short, stunning book by a Brazilian master of the avant-garde.

Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor—his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself...
Better Than Running at Night
AuthorHillary Frank
ISBN0618250735
Having left behind the melodrama of her solitary high school days—and the beheaded martyrs in her paintings—Ellie arrives at the New England College of Art and Design. Looking forward to the opportunity to recreate herself and her art, she begins her first day by dirty dancing with the Devil. Then...
The Reflection
AuthorHugo Wilcken
ISBN1612194508
Hugo Wilcken's first novel, The Execution—a taut, psychological mystery about an average person who commits an accidental murder—got the kind of rave reviews authors dream of: He was compared to Camus and Hitchcock.

Now, in his second novel, The Reflection, the comparisons seem...
The Union Jack
AuthorImre Kertész
ISBN1933633875
"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."

A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.

An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack—the British Flag—during...
Traditori di tutti
AuthorGiorgio Scerbanenco
ISBN8811668573
Notte di nebbia a Milano. Una macchina ferma sull'orlo del Naviglio: all'interno un uomo e una donna, anzianotti, hanno mangiato e bevuto troppo, lui specialmente. Una ragazza spinge la macchina piano... un tonfo, qualche spruzzo, neanche una bollicina. Per Duca Lamberti, ex medico e poliziotto...
Rules for Werewolves
AuthorKirk Lynn
ISBN1612194761
For fans of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth, Rules for Werewolves is a haunting and very funny debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster-diving (oh, and the mortgage crisis) (and, maybe, evil, mythical beings).

What is Rules for Werewolves?

(A)...
Lou Reed: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
AuthorLou Reed
ISBN1612194788
A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ’n’ roll—as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself
 
In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years—including his final interview—Lou Reed oscillates...
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN1612195229
An extraordinary collection of pugnacious, charming, and revealing interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who defined and transformed American literature.

Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his public image as America's greatest author and journalist--and...
The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome
AuthorSerge Brussolo
ISBN1612194680
An undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick—now in English for the first time

In The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome, lucid dreamers called mediums dive into their dreams to retrieve ectoplasms—sticky blobs with curiously soothing...
The Insides
AuthorJeremy P. Bushnell
ISBN1612195466
The highly anticipated follow-up to Jeremy P. Bushnell’s “wonderfully weird and entertaining” (Esquire) debut, The Weirdness
 
Ollie Krueger’s days as a punk kid practicing street magic are are mostly behind her. Now she’s a butcher at Carnage, a high-end restaurant offering...
Thirst: A Novel of the Iran-Iraq War
AuthorMahmoud Dowlatabadi
ISBN1612193005
“Dowlatabadi draws a detailed, realist picture of Iranian life . . . in language that is complex and lyrical.” —The Financial Times

In the midst of the Iran–Iraq War, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. The Major in charge of the camp informs the writer of...
The New Inheritors
AuthorKent Wascom
Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his much-lauded debut, The Blood of Heaven, published when...
Leavetaking
AuthorPeter Weiss
ISBN1612193315
"I was on my way to look for a life of my own."

A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.

This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class...
A History of Money
AuthorAlan Pauls
ISBN1612194230
A major new novel from the writer Roberto Bolaño called “one of the best living Latin American writers.”

Alan Pauls, one of Latin American literature’s rising stars, combines the intimate and the political in a novel that, although it is set in Argentina in the 1970s and ’80s, will...
Wittgenstein Jr
AuthorLars Iyer
ISBN1612193765
The writer Hari Kunzru says “made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages” is back—with a hilarious coming-of-age love story

The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He’s a melancholic, tormented genius who...
Cmentarze
AuthorMarek Hłasko
Przypadkowe spotkanie ze znajomym z czasów partyzanckich okazuje się dla bohatera katastrofalne w skutkach. Kilka beztrosko rzuconych słów i Franciszek Kowalski, dotychczas uczciwy i oddany sprawie członek partii, trafia do aresztu, zostaje posądzony o dwulicowość i dywersję, pozbawiony...
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
AuthorJames Agee
ISBN1612192122
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great...
Machine Dreams
AuthorJayne Anne Phillips
ISBN0375705252
In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history. Here is a stunning chronicle that begins with the Depression and ends with the Vietnam War, revealed...
Red or Dead
AuthorDavid Peace
In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England....
Gilgi, eine von uns
AuthorIrmgard Keun
ISBN3548602673
The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secretary making her way through a Germany succumbing to the Nazis.

Irmgard Keun’s first novel Gilgi was an overnight sensation upon its initial publication in Germany, selling thousands of...
Los que aman, odian
AuthorSilvina Ocampo
ISBN9500426501
El doctor Huberman llega al apartado hotel de Bosque de Mar «en busca de una deleitable y fecunda soledad». Poco imagina que pronto se verá envuelto en las complejas relaciones que los curiosos habitantes del hotel han ido tejiendo. Una mañana, uno de ellos aparece muerto y otro ha desaparecido....
A Short History of Nuclear Folly
AuthorRudolph Herzog
ISBN1612191738
In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe

Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents...
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