Contemporary Masterpieces

Explore a curated list of contemporary masterpieces in literature. Discover must-read books that define modern storytelling and captivate readers worldwide.

Gravity's Rainbow Cover
Book

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his …
Mason & Dixon Cover
Book

Mason & Dixon

 

No summary available.
Operation Shylock Cover
Book

Operation Shylock

by Philip Roth

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an …
Sabbath's Theater Cover
Book

Sabbath's Theater

by Philip Roth

For the first time in paperback, here is the bold and utterly outrageous new novel of a libidinous 64-year-old curmudgeon by the National Book Award …
American Pastoral Cover
Book

American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for America’s promises of …
Mao II Cover
Book

Mao II

by Don DeLillo

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award–winning author of White Noise, …
Underworld Cover
Book

Underworld

by Don DeLillo

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld …
Suttree Cover
Book

Suttree

by Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a …
Blood Meridian Cover
Book

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
The Border Trilogy Cover
Book

The Border Trilogy

by Cormac McCarthy

From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling …
The Erasers Cover
Book

The Erasers

 

No summary available.
The Voyeur Cover
Book

The Voyeur

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Mathias, the voyeur, returns to the island of his birth and wanders about for several days. When a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned, murder is …
Disgrace Cover
Book

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible …
Life and Times of Michael K Cover
Book

Life and Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from …
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cover
Book

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly …
Love in the Time of Cholera Cover
Book

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her …
Item Not Found
ID: 0156005204
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0156006243
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0810111616
(Type: book)
The Tin Drum Cover
Book

The Tin Drum

by GĂĽnter Grass

A dwarf drummer found guilty of a crime he did not commit writes his memoirs from a mental hospital in postwar Germany