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Cathedral
Raymond Carver
4.24 average rating, · 41.4k ratings
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
4.12 average rating, · 55.9k ratings
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
John Fante
4.10 average rating, · 15k ratings
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake
4.15 average rating, · 7k ratings
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The Brotherhood of the Grape
John Fante
4.16 average rating, · 6.6k ratings
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Piccole donne
Louisa May Alcott
4.09 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Dreams from Bunker Hill
John Fante
4.07 average rating, · 6k ratings
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So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Richard Brautigan
4.03 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse
John Fante
4.01 average rating, · 4k ratings
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1933 Was a Bad Year
John Fante
4.02 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Beginners
Raymond Carver
4.24 average rating, · 3k ratings
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The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
Richard Brautigan
4.06 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Northline
Willy Vlautin
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Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
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West of Rome
John Fante
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Motel Chronicles
Sam Shepard
4.09 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
Thomas Wolfe
4.19 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Liars in Love
Richard Yates
4.07 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Nature of Photographs: A Primer
Stephen Shore
4.10 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
Andy Adams
4.02 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
Larry McMurtry
4.30 average rating, · 803 ratings
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Peter Guralnick
4.21 average rating, · 830 ratings
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Fridays at Enrico's
Don Carpenter
4.10 average rating, · 807 ratings
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