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15% off all poetry all month, including Morgan Parker’s awesome new book, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce.

#morgan parker #there are more beautiful things than beyonce #beyonce

Yeong-hye has a dream and decides to stop eating meat. Everyone around goes crazy because of it. Kafka meets Murakami in this unsettling novel from South Korea.

#the vegetarian #han kang #south korea #shelf talker #kafka #murakami

What do Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, Foucault, and de Beauvoir have in common with Martin Amis, jo Nesbo, Tom McCarthy, and James Gleick? Peter Mendelsund has designed the cover art for all of their most famous books.

#peter mendelsund #cover #shelf talker

Subtle, sublime, witty, wry, an other-worldly poetry collection. It changed the way I look at poetry, and is now one of the most important influences on my own work.

#a dark dreambox of another kind #alfred starr hamilton #the song cave #poetry #shelf talker

A simply told simple story that ventures into dark and devastating territories. Please, go: read this book.

#the weight of things #marianne fritz #the dorothy project #german literature #shelf talker

Dying Every Day is a rich historical narrative packed with all the fratricide, matricide, mariticide, homicide, suicide, and in-general debauchery one might expect from first century Rome - and some Stoic philosophy.

#dying every day #james romm #seneca #nero #rome #non fiction #shelf talker #stocisim

Shelf Talker: An apathetic German describes his ambivalence to the rise of an authoritarian. A deeply psychological novel and a must read for undecided American voters…

#the death of the adversary #hans keilson #fsg #germany #literature #world war ii #shelf talker

Shelf Talker: Tightly plotted thriller meets legal drama. 1924 vividly brings to life Hitler’s rise in the Nazi Party, the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, his trial for high treason, and the year he spent in prison writing Mein Kampf.

#shelf talker #1924 #peter ross range #hitler #non fiction #history #little brown

Shelf Talker: A Phone sex operator, a hitman, a mistress, a disgruntled ex-lover. All their stories intertwined through alternating dialogue with a surprise ending that will make you want to reread this quick story.

#hi this is conchita #santiago roncagliolo #edith grossman #shelf talker #peru #literature #south america #two line press

Shelf Talker: Imagine Dwight Schrute finds a secret room in the office where he can finally get some work done. But everyone else says the room doesn't even exist...

Bjorn, newly transferred to The Authority, finds a room in his new open-plan office where he can get some quality work done. Only problem is, the room might not actually exist

#the room #jonas karlsson #shelf talker #sweden #hogarth

I can’t remember the title, but it’s yellow.

#hans fallada #shelf talker #melville house #pinneberg #germany #literature

Franz Polzer is a high neurotic, socially awkward bank clerk. As his meticulously ordered life begins to unravel, Polzer finds himself fulfilling his landlady’s sexual appetite, gaining unwanted roommates, losing his job, all while simultaneously watching the physical deterioration of his closest friend.

#ShelfTalker: While the dark, disturbing, psychological nature of “The Maimed” will dissuade many readers, Ungar’s novel is a masterpiece not to passed up by the bold reader unafriad of new literary experiences

#the maimed #hermann ungar #twisted spoon press #shelf talker #prague #eastern europe

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