Koolaids

by Rabih Alameddine

“Koolaids is the companion guide to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the history of the world ….

Kornwolf

by Tristan Egolf

“The voice is unforgettable, at times attaining the incantatory power of Whitman’s ‘barbaric yawp.’” –New Yorker

The Keepsake

by Kirsty Gunn

“To crack open Kirsty Gunn’s second novel is to fumble unwittingly with the lid of Pandora’s box. . . . Its figures of speech, lovely on the page, turn unholy once they’ve taken on life . . . [but] go ahead, open it, it’s worth the risk.” –The New York…

Kill Hole

by Jamake Highwater

“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas…

A Killing in This Town

by Olympia Vernon

“Viscerally moving . . . A fugue of folk idiom, blues, biblical diction and surreal imagery makes for lots of atmosphere.” –Publishers Weekly

Junky

by William S. Burroughs

Burroughs’s first and most autobiographical novel is one of the most unflinching and insightful works on addiction ever written—a cult classic and an influence…

Kamchatka

by Marcelo Figueras

A man recalls his experience as a ten-year-old boy hiding in a safe house during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in this commanding and spellbinding novel…

Kate Caterina

by William Riviere

“A masterpiece of a tour through Mussolini’s Italy . . . If the mark of a great novel is that readers will miss the…

Judgment Day

by Penelope Lively

“Judgment Day is remarkable for several reasons. First and foremost, it’s a good book. It’s also short, sharp and, though it addresses important questions, thoroughly unpretentious . . . The beauty of Judgment Day is that it offers big themes through humble subject matter.” –Elizabeth Noyes, Boston Sunday Globe…

Julip

by Jim Harrison

“A marvelous book, written with vigor and a knowing, gravelly humor.” —Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle

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