Contemporary

Open City by Teju Cole

A young Nigerian doctor completing his residency walks aimlessly through the streets of Manhattan. The walks fulfil their need for Julius since they ...

Accidental by Ali Smith

Ali Smith's brilliant book The Accidental is about a family vacation and a stranger who upsets it. The Accidental pans in on the Smart family's ...

Field Work by Seamus Heaney

The four years that Seamus Heaney spent escaping the violence of Belfast and relocating with his family to Glanmore, County Wicklow, are chronicled ...

War Music by Christopher Logue

In ancient Achaea, as night falls, your goat-herding family and neighbours assemble by fire to listen to a visiting minstrel sing about the demise of ...

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Former British consul Geoffrey Firmin is currently in Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Drinking, which has dominated his life, is his crippling ailment. His ...

In Parenthesis by David Jones

David Jones, a member of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, served on the Western Front for two years. His greatest work was inspired by these events. The ...

Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses, one of the best books of the 20th century, has a significant impact on contemporary literature. The book follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen ...

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The residents of lower Manhattan stand silently, their eyes wide with shock as they look up at the Twin Towers in the early morning light of a late ...

In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul

It starts out as merely an African road trip. Following a visit to the city, two English people—Linda, a haughty "compound wife," and Bobby, a ...

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The best "state of the nation" book ever written in English, Middlemarch examines everyday life in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832, a ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

At Sweet Home, the farm where Sethe spent so many years as a slave before making her way to Ohio, terrible, horrible things happened to her. Her new ...

Pick-Up by Charles Willeford

Pick-Up is a genuine underground classic and an incendiary bulletin from the urban underbelly of mid-1950s America. It was first published as an ...

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