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Top 10 REALLY Underrated Books (Fewer than 1,000 Ratings) : Collected Sonnets, Collected Stories, Grundish and Askew, Loving / Living / Party Going, Fudoki, The Bat-Poet, The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt, The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky

Collected Sonnets
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0060910917
More than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition. An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses...
Collected Stories
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0143039792
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating...
Grundish and Askew
AuthorLance Carbuncle
ISBN0982280009
Strap on your athletic cup and grab a barf bag. The Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle is going to kick you square in the balls and send you on a wild ride that may or may not answer the following questions: what happens when two white trash, trailer park-dwelling, platonic life partners go on a moronic and misdirected...
Loving / Living / Party Going
AuthorHenry Green
ISBN0140186913
Read:Living

Series of extended metaphors in Living orchestrate feelings with image of sea and ships with bright flashes of tropical birds or coral reefs, shoals of flying fish, dolphins playing. I would hope to set sail on Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, but that would be...
Fudoki
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN0765303914
Enter the world of Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen--who may or may not be a figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing...
The Bat-Poet
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0062050842
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With...
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0940322730
Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army—recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's...
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
AuthorRobert Crichton
ISBN0881842672
After visiting some of the hilltowns in Tuscany, I wondered what it would have been like to live through WWII there. Based on a true story and the author 's personal experience, the book clearly told the story of one small village and their ordeal. It was light and humorous, insightful and introspective,...
Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt
AuthorNaguib Mahfouz
ISBN1841593052
Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule...
The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky
AuthorMaxim Gorky
ISBN0806510757
Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better...
An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
AuthorJames Lipton
ISBN0140170960
An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards," a "parliament of owls," an "ostentation of peacocks," a "smack of jellyfish," and a "murder of crows"!

For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James...
"I Can't," Said the Ant
AuthorPolly Cameron
ISBN1590020499
A teapot falls off a shelf in the kitchen and the event is witnessed by an ant. The ant feels incapable of offering any assistance, sparking commentary from all of the appliances and the food.

I’ve used this book over and over again during my daughter’s first grade year to advance her reading...
England, Their England
AuthorA.G. Macdonell
ISBN0330280414
Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson . . .
...
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
AuthorVictor Serge
ISBN1590170644
One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead in the street, and the search for his killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at...
A Dram of Poison
AuthorCharlotte Armstrong
ISBN0930330986
A longtime bachelor finally loves—only to suffer corrosive jealousy

For five decades, Kenneth Gibson lives quietly, now teaching poetry to undergrads. His life is comfortable and dull, until he meets and marries helpless Rosemary 32. Cared for, her depression fades, his wan wife gains...
The Doonesbury Chronicles
AuthorG.B. Trudeau
ISBN0030152569
In 1975, for the first time in the history of journalism awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to a comic strip: Garry Trudeau's nationally syndicated Doonesbury.

"It is not only the best comic strip, but the best satire that's come along in a long time."
—Art Buchwald

Carried...
Raintree County
AuthorRoss Lockridge Jr.
Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period...
The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story
AuthorPeter Lefcourt
ISBN0060975598
The Book Report: The eponymous Dreyfus, baseball star Randy, is an All-American Guy with a wife and two daughters. We meet him with that family as he opens a strip mall named for him near his suburban California home. Randy is a man with a problem, however: He's coming to know, at age 28, that he is really...
Rachel Ray
AuthorAnthony Trollope
ISBN0140434100
Written in 1863, near the beginning of his career, Rachel Ray is one of Anthony Trollope's sweetest, tightest, and most charming novels. The eponymous young lady is the daughter of one widow and sister of another. She falls for a handsome young man named Luke Rowan, who is the partner in a local brewery...
The Saskiad
AuthorBrian Hall
Longing to escape the rundown commune where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseys, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. Saskia's elaborate...
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0060976713
I've been reading from The Complete Stories by Amy Hempel, one story collection at a time, while on vacation. This is the second one she wrote, and it is most unusual, interesting, and emotionally compelling. Some of these stories are as short as 1-2 pages, the longest being about 12 pages. She is very...
Winter Birds
AuthorJim Grimsley
ISBN0684829916
On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina along a stretch of rural highway, a dreamy eight-year-old named Danny Crell is caught in the middle of a violent quarrel between his parents. Danny's father, Bobjay Crell, has been at the mercy of doctors, unforgiving landlords, and cruel farm bosses ever...
Lifelode
AuthorJo Walton
ISBN1886778825
A very unique fantasy novel by Jo Walton — a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the World Fantasy award.
From the introduction by Sharyn November: "Lifelode is what one might call domestic fantasy, set in a quiet farming community—but it's also about politics, God and...
Winterlong
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN0061057304
It is big and it is worth praising . ...Winterlong is a dense, graceful, bullying book of great length and much skill; it is a live tale, told in a live voice, by an author of muscle and drive and ambition; it shows the depth of talent available in science fiction. -- John Clute, "The Washington Post" Elizabeth...
Flambards in Summer
AuthorK.M. Peyton
ISBN0192750542
Omläsning. Serien om Flambards blir bättre ju längre man kommer. Sommar på Flambards är den tredje delen och den jag tycker bäst om. Det här hade jag inte alls väntat mig när jag började min omläsning av de här tre böckerna.
Christina är nybliven änka och återvänder till det Flambards...
Tales of the Night
AuthorPeter Høeg
ISBN0140279733
These stories, which vary in theme but all bear the mark of Peter Hoeg's graceful and thoughtful prose, are set in eight separate corners of the world. On this fateful night, a young mathematician encounters Joseph Conrad during a train ride through the war-torn Congo in "Journey into a Dark Heart; "...
The Quest for Christa T.
AuthorChrista Wolf
ISBN0374515344
When The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers professionally involved in literary matters; at the annual meeting of East German Writers Conference,...
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0809590042
Τρίτο βιβλιαράκι του Τζέιμς Θέρμπερ που διαβάζω, μετά το πολύ ωραίο παραμύθι φαντασίας "Το άσπρο ελάφι" που διάβασα τον Μάρτιο του 2016 και το ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστο...
Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom
AuthorBeth Hilgartner
ISBN0395502144
At first Alexandra thought it was a dream. She would just lie there in the forest, quite still, until she really woke up. But the birdlike little girl tugged at her hand again. She tried to explain: "I'm Zan, and I'm lost." The little girl only smiled, clearly not understanding.

That was how Alexandra...
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
AuthorM. Kat Anderson
ISBN0520248511
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple...
Welcome to the Ark
AuthorStephanie S. Tolan
ISBN0380733196
In a world of random violence and multiplying militias, four brilliant young misfits are thrown together in a group home for troubled youth. Isolated by their special abilities, Miranda, Doug, Taryn, and Elijah are unable to cope in a society that regards them as freaks.

But in the experimental...
Firegold
AuthorDia Calhoun
ISBN0374423113
"Thirteen-year-old Jonathon, feared and hated by the brown-eyed Valley people because of his blue eyes, tries to find answers to his true identity in the Red Mountains, home of the Dalriada, a mountain people with magnificent horses, mystical powers, and blue eyes like his."

It was this,...
Sabella, or, The Bloodstone
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0879975296
DRACULA?
A mere figment of superstition, a thing that could not exist.
SABELLA?
A very real person, an enticing girl of flesh and warmth - who detested the sunlight, who required the blood of young men to feed upon, who was all that Dracula was said to be except never one of the "undead." Sabella...
Maida's Little Shop
AuthorInez Haynes Irwin
ISBN1421970694
Maida's Little Shop is a gentle story with a delightful little girl heroine and lovable characters. Inez Haynes Irwin used the pseudonym Inez Haynes Gilmore. She was a feminist writer and was a member of the National Women's Party. Maida is a sweet little girl whose father is one of the richest men in America....
Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets
AuthorJude Morgan
ISBN0312343698
Theirs was a world of obsession, genius, and above all…

In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, three poets—Byron, Shelley, and Keats—come to prominence, famous and infamous, for their vivid personalities, and their glamorous, shocking, and sometimes...
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories
AuthorWashington Irving
ISBN0140367713
The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy...
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
AuthorStanley Wells
ISBN0375424946
From one of our most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, here is a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmly places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote.

Theater in Shakespeare's day was a burgeoning “growth industry."...
Brightness Falls from the Air
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0312854072
They have gathered now on Damiem and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment...
Basic Theological Writings
AuthorMartin Luther
ISBN0800636805
Thorough translation of many of Dr. Luther's more important writings - in 755 pages. To be clear this is not just a casual read, but the average high-school graduate might need to take their time. Perhaps reading several pages (12-20) a week over a year. Dr. Lull has included several footnotes which help...
The Book of the Mad
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0879514817
In her darkly dazzling finish to The Secret Books of Paradys, Tanith Lee tempts the reader with a tale of horror, lust and madness that leaves no perversity untouched, no taboo unbroken. This time, the seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the City - Paradis, Paradys and Paradise....
The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
AuthorE.M. Forster
ISBN1905005008
1923. English author and critic, member of Bloomsbury group and friend of Virginia Woolf who achieved fame through his novels, which include: Room with a View, Maurice, A Passage to India, and Howard's End. The Celestial Omnibus is a collection of short-stories Forster wrote during the prewar years,...
Delusion's Master
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0886771978
When the world was flat and the gods had not yet restructured the universe, the cities and hopes of mankind hung upon the whims of the immortal lords of all diabolical powers.

For these, such as Azhrarn, Night's Master, and Uhlume, Death's Master, the world was a flesh-and-blood playground...
Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0801491304
This book makes available for the first time in paperback all of Stephen Crane's poetry. The 134 poems, critically edited from manuscripts and printed sources according to modern textual principles, are arranged in chronological order. They include the poems published during Crane's lifetime...
The Dance of Deception: A Guide to Authenticity and Truth-Telling in Women's Relationships
AuthorHarriet Lerner
ISBN0060924632
When The Dance of Deceptionwas published, Lerner discovered that women were not eager to identify with the subject. "Well, I don't do deception" was a common resonse.

We all "do deception", often with the intention to protect ourselves and the relationships we depend on. The Dance of Deceptionunravels...
John Caldigate
AuthorAnthony Trollope
ISBN0192828177
John Caldigate (1879) possesses in abundance the virtues of Trollope's writing: an engrossing story told by a worldly-wise, kindly, fair-minded narrator, and a tale strong on what Trollope claimed as the leading feature of his novels, "real" characters. But John Caldigate has some striking and...
War Fever
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0374525765
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories...
Novel Without a Name
AuthorDương Thu Hương
ISBN0140255109
A piercing, unforgettable tale of the horror and spiritual weariness of war, Novel Without a Name will shatter every preconception Americans have about what happened in the jungles of Vietnam. With Duong Thu Huong, whose Paradise of the Blind was published to high critical acclaim in 1993, Vietnam...
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