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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 548,606 ratings — published 2002
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.84 — 334,959 ratings — published 2019
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 395,332 ratings — published 1925
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,427,889 ratings — published 1915
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 200,451 ratings — published 2000
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 18,945 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 469,587 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 97,330 ratings — published 1972
El color de la Alegria (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 4.95 — 20 ratings — published
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 609,303 ratings — published 1871
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,261,605 ratings — published 2011
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 18,989 ratings — published 2016
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,478,411 ratings — published 1943
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,462,357 ratings — published 1949
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,401,429 ratings — published 1942
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,077,399 ratings — published 1932
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 465,179 ratings — published 1995
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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avg rating 3.46 — 327,963 ratings — published 2019
Pure Colour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.42 — 21,083 ratings — published 2022
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 339,916 ratings — published 2009
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 53,079 ratings — published 2015
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 381,644 ratings — published 2007
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 422,721 ratings — published 2003
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 196,057 ratings — published 1929
The White Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 35,718 ratings — published 2016
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 101,495 ratings — published 1996
Audition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 31,084 ratings — published 2025
Orbital (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 141,412 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 220,456 ratings — published 1985
Solenoid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,749 ratings — published 2015
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 75,613 ratings — published 1956
Life Ceremony (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 27,603 ratings — published 2019
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.45 — 30,810 ratings — published 2019
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 314,908 ratings — published 1994
Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)
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avg rating 3.36 — 9,102 ratings — published 2019
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 434,384 ratings — published 2021
Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944 - 1960 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published 2001
The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 48,092 ratings — published 2017
Dare to Lead (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 126,930 ratings — published 2018
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 3.69 — 129,435 ratings — published 2022
Burned (Burned, #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 71,033 ratings — published 2006
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,483,378 ratings — published 1969
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 225,777 ratings — published 1999
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 41,344 ratings — published 1964
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 41,057 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 4.01 — 803,602 ratings — published 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,105,009 ratings — published 1967
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 138,802 ratings — published 1994
“What we mean, in the last resort, by 'an answer to prayer', is that from the beginning of time, before he set about the building of the worlds, God foreknew every prayer that human lips would breathe, and took it into account. That, and nothing less, is the staggering claim which we make every time we say the 'Our Father'.
If I could have collected all the symposiasts in a room, this is the issue I would have put to them, to 'try their spirits'. By all means (I would have said) let us leave dogma on one side, let us take no notice of all the secular disputes which divide the sympathies of Christian people, let us refrain as far as possible from prying into the mysterious secrets, too high for our ken. But- do you believe that God runs the world, and cares what happens in the world? For, if so, you will have to find something better than a pale, pantheist abstraction to satisfy your notion of God. And if not, you may spare your inkstands; nothing you can tell us about your religion will ever strengthen an infirm purpose or heal a broken heart.”
― Caliban in Grub Street 1930 [Leather Bound]
If I could have collected all the symposiasts in a room, this is the issue I would have put to them, to 'try their spirits'. By all means (I would have said) let us leave dogma on one side, let us take no notice of all the secular disputes which divide the sympathies of Christian people, let us refrain as far as possible from prying into the mysterious secrets, too high for our ken. But- do you believe that God runs the world, and cares what happens in the world? For, if so, you will have to find something better than a pale, pantheist abstraction to satisfy your notion of God. And if not, you may spare your inkstands; nothing you can tell us about your religion will ever strengthen an infirm purpose or heal a broken heart.”
― Caliban in Grub Street 1930 [Leather Bound]
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can appear to have precious little to do with the actual, visual world around us. Good theory however, is an awesome thing. [...] But unless we actually use it, it borders on the metaphysical and might as well not be used at all.”
― Visual Culture
― Visual Culture
