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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 $5.45! new only from $8.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Pale fire more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov add to wishlist A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.72! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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
4	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 $2.82! new only from $10.63! \| 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 $3.50! new only from $10.01! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 $1.99! new only from $5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sixty Stories more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist A collection of 60 of Donald Barthelme's short stories, including many previously uncollected pieces. The author also published four novels, including "The King", "Snow White", "The Dead Father" and "Paradise". see all copies from $3.05! new only from $9.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	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 $8.87! new only from $8.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth more books like this by Chris Ware add to wishlist For five years Chris Ware has been drawing amazingly innovative 'comic strips' about a character called Jimmy Corrigan - a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. Here for the first time Ware's strips are assembled in a beautiful hardback, every inch of which, including an extraordinary fold-out jacket, has been designed by Chris Ware. Jimmy ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $12.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Snow White more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 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 $3.11! new only from $3.11! \| first editions \| SVS
13 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 $8.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	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 $3.31! \| first editions \| SVS
15 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 $3.04! \| first editions \| SVS
16 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 $2.72! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream more books like this by Kathy Acker add to wishlist In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.35! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Watt more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. "Watt" is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Paradise more books like this by Donald Barthelme add to wishlist Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object. Set in the 1980s, there's further tension between Simon's desire to exploit this stereotypical fantasy and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.39! \| first editions \| SVS
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 $1.99! new only from $7.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 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 $4.46! new only from $4.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Flounder more books like this by Gunter Grass add to wishlist First published in 1977, this novel is based on the fairy story "The Fisherman and his Wife". Multi-layered and laced with poetry and humour, it analyzes the battle of the sexes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	How it is more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist "It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life "is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing"; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive reader who journeys through How It Is will leave the book convinced that Beckett says more that is ... see all copies from $4.88! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Mercier & Camier more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett's dark humor, "Mercier and Camier" is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes' epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least "did not remove from home, they had that good fortune." see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Museum at Purgatory more books like this by Nick Bantock add to wishlist Nick Bantock's many fans have come to expect strange and wonderful experiences as they enjoy his beautifully illustrated books, and this newest work will not disappoint. An otherworldly mixture of surreal drawings, photographs of invented and actual objects, fake documents, altered engravings, and fictions, it follows the post-death journey of Non ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions

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