Contemporary

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

A young woman travelling through the 1970s, the New York art scene, and the post-hippie radicals in New York and Italy is beautifully and intricately ...

Underworld by Don DeLillo

When it was released in 1997, Don DeLillo's captivating book became a big hit and the most critically acclaimed book of the year. The 1951 baseball ...

Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

This creepy, beautiful novel, one of the most significant pieces of LGBT writing, is a seriocomic memory of things past—and so tragically present. It ...

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

Gina Moynahan, a 32-year-old childless married woman who has an affair with a married guy who does have a child—a pretty exceptional youngster named ...

The Shining by Stephen King

If you consider yourself a fan, you should surely read The Shining, one of King's classics. The tale of Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance, who spent ...

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Silver family home in the segregated town of Dover, England, is peculiar in some ways. It has been the home of four generations of Silver women: ...

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

With only her dog and a herd of sheep for company, Jake Whyte has withdrawn to an isolated farmhouse on a rocky British island, a place of relentless ...

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

A young youngster is killed when he falls from a roof. His next-door neighbour, Smilla, believes it is not a coincidence because she has seen his ...

A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze

Instead of taking place in the time before the Jason and Medea myth, the story is set in Georgia, the modern-day state that was once Colchis, the ...

Kvachi by Mikheil Javakhishvili

In a nutshell, this is the tale of Kvachi Kvachantiradze, a womanizer, cheat, insurance fraudster, bank robber, Rasputin associate, filmmaker, rebel, ...

The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall

Rachel Caine has been separated from her family for almost ten years due to family conflicts and her employment as a wolf monitor on an Idaho ...

What Is the What by Dave Eggers

Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-torn southern Sudan, fled his town in the middle of the 1980s and later joined the so-called Lost Boys. During ...

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