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1	The Art of Racing in the Rain more books like this by Garth Stein add to wishlist Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of this bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyalty, and hope. Enzo is a philosopher with a nearly human soul, and he's gained a wealth of knowledge from hours spent in front of the TV. see all copies from $3.84! new only from $8.16! \| first editions \| SVS
2	House of Leaves more books like this by Mark Z Danielewski add to wishlist A man buys a house for his girlfriend and her two children. When a new door appears in a wall, they find a space that appears to be infinite, even though the outside form of the house remains the same. In five expeditions, the characters explore this vast space, and each try is documented in a different kind of narrative, each in its own typeface. ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Pale fire more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov add to wishlist Generally considered one of Nabokov's greatest works, PALE FIRE consists of a 999-line poem written by a professor named John Shade, and a scholarly commentary on it by his colleague, Charles Kinbote. The novel is a satire of literary scholarship and American university life; it is also a study of creativity in both its constructive and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| first editions \| SVS
4	e more books like this by Matthew Beaumont add to wishlist An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year. Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hopscotch more books like this by Julio Cortazar add to wishlist This is the tragic history of two men and their circle of friends who live in Buenos Aires and Paris. Anticipating the age of the Web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, the book invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves. see all copies from $3.22! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Against the Day more books like this by Thomas Pynchon add to wishlist Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, and elsewhere. see all copies from $2.03! new only from $10.40! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Snow White more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Finnegans Wake more books like this by James Joyce add to wishlist Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote "Ulysses", "Dubliners" and "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Atrocity Exhibition more books like this by J. G. Ballard add to wishlist First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of "Crash" and "Super-Cannes", who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $9.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Glamorama more books like this by Bret Easton Ellis add to wishlist A man in what is recognizably New York is drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism, and family and politics, are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The People of Paper more books like this by Salvador Plascencia add to wishlist Part memoir, part lies, this imaginative tale is a story about loving a woman made of paper, about the wounds made by first love and sharp objects. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.15! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Forty Stories more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist A collection of Barthelme's stories, including previously uncollected pieces. Chronicling the modern world, the situations he creates are both ordinary and strange, often reflecting the absurdity and meaninglessness of life. His other novels include "Snow White", "The Dead Father" and "The King". see all copies from $2.49! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Only Revolutions more books like this by Mark Z Danielewski add to wishlist A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's "Glas" and Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to "House of Leaves" is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights--and a similarly impressive tour de force. see all copies from $2.36! new only from $2.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Nine Kinds of Naked more books like this by Tony Vigorito add to wishlist Do you believe in the butterfly effect? Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Tibet? What if the butterfly happens to be flapping centuries before the tornado stirs? Does the Great White Spot - a twenty-first-century weather anomaly rotating clockwise off the coast of Louisiana - stem from a ninth-century serf untying ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Blood and Guts in High School more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $7.81! \| SVS
16 view cover	Sixty Stories more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist This book includes selected stories from eight of Barthelme's previous collections published between 1964 and 1979--many of which are now out of print--and nine previously uncollected stories. Over the years his stylistic innovations have had a wide influence on short story authors and have inspired many imitators, but this collection demonstrates ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Learners: The Book After the Cheese Monkeys more books like this by Chip Kidd add to wishlist Set in the early 1960s, The Learners is the stand alone sequel to Kidd's previous novel, The Cheese Monkeys. Always entertaining and often moving, The Learners is the story of Happy, a young graphic designer who lands his first job at a wacky advertising firm in New Haven, Connecticut. Among his colourful co-workers is Sketch, the lovable, aging ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The dead father more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist Barthelme encapsulates ideas about the meaning of fathers and fatherhood in this parabolic tale of a son, his wife, and his 'brothers' who drag and tow a gargantuan 'father' to his final resting place. Although 'dead,' the father is quite talkative, and on the long journey he engages his sons on their shortcomings and solidifies his criticisms ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Home Place more books like this by Wright Morris add to wishlist 'A Nebraska classic' - Saul Bellow. 'That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers' - "New York Times". 'A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text' - Alan Trachtenberg. 'An ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Murphy more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Beckett's tragicomic first novel (1938) is about a young man trying to earn enough money to get married and support a wife. In the process, he is also searching for himself. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $8.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Kockroach more books like this by Tyler Knox add to wishlist It's the mid 1950s, and Kockroach lives in a fleabag hotel in New York, perfectly content with his life as an arthropod--until the night he awakens to discover that somehow he's become a human. Will he become an American success story or be squashed from above? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Castle of Crossed Destinies more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Stories & texts for nothing. more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Three major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Novel more books like this by Andy Warhol add to wishlist Now available after 20 years--Andy Warhol's only novel. Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, referred to as "pornography" in "The New York Times Book Review's" original review and as "a work of genius" by "Newsweek", "a: A Novel" is the perfect literary manifestation of Warhol's sensibility. "Like "Finnegan's Wake", it remakes the ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Flying to America: 45 More Stories more books like this by Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger (Editor) add to wishlist Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century. Through his unique, richly textured, and brilliantly realized novels, stories, parodies, satires, fables, and essays, Barthelme redefined a generation of American letters. To John Hawkes, he was "one of our greatest of all comic writers." Robert Coover ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| first editions \| SVS

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