Unrecounted

7 best books like Unrecounted (W.G. Sebald): Tenth of December, Year of the Monkey, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, Phosphor in Dreamland, Fever and Spear

Tenth of December

Author	George Saunders
ISBN	0812993802

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.

In the taut opening, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction...

Year of the Monkey

Author	Patti Smith
ISBN	0525657681

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Author

Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...

Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

Author	Fernando Pessoa
ISBN	0802136273

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of...

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

Author	Lucille Clifton
ISBN	0918526590

Unbelievable. Clifton had just laid out the guide to being alive, female, and Black in the US through her poetry and memoir. Poetry has never moved me as much as this, and I've never read so much from and about a person in such a short amount of time. All the work of navigating the world, ourselves, our families,...

Phosphor in Dreamland

Author	Rikki Ducornet
ISBN	1564780848

Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form...

Fever and Spear

Author	Javier Marías
ISBN	0811216128

Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense writing gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls...