Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time
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The Alice Network: A Novel
- ASIN: 0062654195
- ISBN: 0062654195
- Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLEROne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the ... [Read More]
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Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel
- ASIN: 034542039X
- ISBN: 034542039X
- Manufacturer: Del Rey
In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too far fetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth C... [Read More]
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A Burnt-Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 0140185399
- ISBN: 0140185399
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for t... [Read More]
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Sword of Destiny (The Witcher)
- ASIN: 0316389706
- ISBN: 0316389706
- Brand: Orbit (December 1, 2015)
- Manufacturer: Orbit
Soon to be a major Netflix original series!Geralt the Witcher -- revered and hated -- holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this second collection of adventures in the NYT bestselling series that inspired the blockbuster video games. Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir,... [Read More]
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Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 0141181265
- ISBN: 9780141181264
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night."A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culm... [Read More]
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The Paris Architect: A Novel
- UPC: 760789245374
- ASIN: 1402294158
- ISBN: 1402294158
- Brand: Sourcebooks Landmark
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark
The New York Times Bestseller!“A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war.” —Malcolm GladwellAn extraordinary novel about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris, from an author wh... [Read More]
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Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- ASIN: 0812976533
- ISBN: 9780812976533
- Brand: Unbranded
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time... [Read More]
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Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text (French Edition)
- ASIN: 0140265430
- ISBN: 0140265430
- Brand: Penguin
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in "The Hunter's Cafe," to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic "You Never Die," these stories make excelle... [Read More]
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The Nightingale: A Novel
- ASIN: B00JO8PEN2
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
- ASIN: 1455563927
- ISBN: 9781455563920
- Brand: Grand Central Publishing
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSH... [Read More]
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The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel
- ASIN: 0778330273
- ISBN: 0778330273
- Brand: Park Row
- Manufacturer: Park Row
A New York Times Bestseller“Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Girls of Paris is a fascinating tale of the hidden women who helped to win the war.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursFrom the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkabl... [Read More]
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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding
- ASIN: 0062885367
- ISBN: 0062885367
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS.Named one of InStyle's best books to put in your totebag for the summer!Named one of Popsugar’s best books to put in your beachbag this ... [Read More]
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All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
- ASIN: 0449213943
- ISBN: 9780449213940
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .This is the testament of Pau... [Read More]
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The Third Man and The Fallen Idol (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 014018533X
- ISBN: 014018533X
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very leas... [Read More]
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The French War Bride (Wedding Tree)
- UPC: 000425282449
- ASIN: 0425282449
- ISBN: 0425282449
- Brand: Berkley Pub Group
- Manufacturer: Berkley
*USA TODAY BESTSELLER*World War II Paris serves as the backdrop for a story of compassion, betrayal, and forgiveness from the national bestselling author of The Wedding Tree... At her assisted living center in Wedding Tree, Louisiana, ninety-three-year-old Amélie O’Connor is in the habit of leaving her door open for friends. One day she receiv... [Read More]
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The Paris Seamstress
- ASIN: 1538714779
- ISBN: 1538714779
- Manufacturer: Forever
For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family.1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known... [Read More]
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Mephisto (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 0140189181
- ISBN: 0140189181
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann ... [Read More]
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Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
- ASIN: 0679751114
- ISBN: 0679751114
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
A beguiling novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense set in the South of France, from the beloved, best-selling author of A Year in Provence. Simon Shaw, a rumpled, fortyish English advertising executive, has decided to leave it all behind, and heads of to France to transform an abandoned police station in the Lubéron into a small... [Read More]
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The Loves of Judith: A Novel
- ASIN: 0805242864
- ISBN: 0805242864
- Manufacturer: Schocken
A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy. When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a widowed farmer; Globerman, a wealthy cattle dealer; a... [Read More]
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Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
- ASIN: 0822323400
- ISBN: 0822323400
- Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historic... [Read More]
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