Fiction & Literature

INVITATION TO A BEHEADING [First American paperback - CAP GIANT 255]
A Capricorn Giant / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Darkening & soiling to cover. Rubber stamp from previous bookseller on half title page. Underlining. 7th printing. [223 pages]. More
Invisible Man -- No. 338
Modern Library/ Random House, 1967. Cloth. 12mo. In tattered, torn jacket with darkened edges & spine. Split along folds & barely holding together along these fault cracks. Front flap is clipped. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Fujita end papers. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to verso of..... More
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Books, June 2021. Trade Paperback. The instant New York Times Bestseller - Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction "A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal...Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong's debut novel is..... More
The Covenant of Water
Grove Press, May 2023. Hardcover. OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers..... More
Mrs. S
Europa Editions, June 2023. Paper Back. A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortlisted writer K Patrick In an elite English boarding school where the girls..... More
Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
Exact Change, September 2019. Paper Back. This pataphysical journey up a mountain whose summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings depicts an allegorical landscape akin to Alice in Wonderland A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal's Mount Analogue is the allegorical..... More
Case Study
Biblioasis, November 2022. Trade Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize - Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards - Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award - Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award SELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS..... More
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
Fordham University Press, March 2023. Hardcover. A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern..... More
The Maid: A Novel
Ballantine Books, January 2023. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - "A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center" (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - "The..... More
Romantic Comedy: A Novel
Random House, April 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep..... More
Hello Beautiful
Dial Press, March 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From the author of Dear Edward comes a "powerfully affecting" (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? "Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life's highs and lows with..... More
The Prodigal Women: A Novel
Library of America, May 2023. Paper Back. Rediscover the sensational 1942 bestseller that unveiled the Jazz Age as women lived it As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and VANITY FAIR Set in Boston, New York, and Virginia, The Prodigal Women tells the intertwined stories of three young..... More
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Penguin Books, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller "One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction..... More
The King Is Dead: Stories
Vintage, February 2023. Paper Back. For the first time ever, a complete collection of short fiction the New York Times bestselling author of The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess..... More
Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel
Ballantine Books, February 2020. Trade Paperback. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup--from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu..... More
Ulysses
Vintage, June 1990. Trade Paperback. This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James..... More
All the Sinners Bleed
Flatiron Books, June 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. "Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal." --Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. The new novel from New..... More
Nightbitch: A Novel
Anchor, July 2022. Paper Back. In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. - "A must-read for anyone who can't get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." --Vulture One day, the..... More
Flux
Melville House Publishing, March 2023. Hardcover. "Flux happily offers a moving appraisal of lives buffeted by personal and systemic traumas; a deep dive into the good, the bad and the ugly of self-serving corporate culture; and no shortage of "wait, what the heck just happened?" thrills." -- The New York..... More
When We Cease to Understand the World
New York Review of Books, September 2021. Paper Back. One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose..... More
Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Wesleyan, August 1996. First Edition. Paper Back. In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the..... More
The Poems of Robert Frost -- No. 242
Modern Library / Random House, 1946. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. Signed & inscribed & dated, 1953 by Robert Frost: 'Robert Frost to Georgia Belle Christopher, 1953'. In tattered & torn jacket with heavy chipping & tears, especially across top edge. Spine darkened. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name written..... More
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest (Everyman's Library) no. 263
Everyman's Library/ Alfred A. Knopf, December 2000. First Thus. Cloth. The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century. A one-time detective and a master..... More
Happy Place
Berkley Books, April 2023. Hardcover. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "The beach-read master hooks us again."--People Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ? Paste Magazine ? Elle ? Southern Living ? SheReads ? Culturess ? Medium ? Her Campus ? Readers Digest ? Zibby Mag and..... More