My Crazy Century

by Ivan Klíma

“Klíma has endured as a writer, endured as a human being, writing of the great themes of freedom, honesty, and love and politics, and…

My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales

by Robert Antoni

“It’s magical stuff, outrageous and scatological, sharpened to a fine, funny point, and an entirely charming read.” –The Hartford Courant

My Idea of Fun

by Will Self

“For intelligence and ambition . . . inventive comedy, heartbreak and levity . . . Will Self belongs in the company of Nabokov, Pynchon,…

The Mountain Shadow

by Gregory David Roberts

In this highly anticipated sequel to the contemporary classic Shantaram, Lin continues to search for love and faith in a changing Bombay.

Mr. Spaceman

by Robert Olen Butler

“A novel of surprising poignance . . . Amusingly quirky . . . [Portrays] a human world that’s both in thrall to a tabloid…

Mukiwa

by Peter Godwin

“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be…

Moon Tiger

by Penelope Lively

“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.”—Boston Globe Winner…

More Pricks Than Kicks

by Samuel Beckett

“It is in the vaudeville aspect that his exuberance gleams, and it is his exuberance – even the exuberance of his despair – that…

Mistress to an Age

by J. Christopher Herold

“Mr. Herold’s full-bodied biography is clear-eyed, intelligent, and written with abundant wit and zest.” –The Atlantic Monthly

Molloy

by Samuel Beckett

‘samuel Beckett is one of the great playwrights of our age. . . . As a novelist he is just as important. His novels, like all important works of art, have the stamp of the inevitable on them: they had to be written and, though we suffer reading them, we…

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