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by Woody Allen
4.0(7,003)
Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' follows a man who uses a time machine to date Emma Bovary and a burglar's philosophical thoughts, offering a funny, anxious look at modern life.
by David Mamet
3.6(6,974)
A college professor's meeting with a student turns into a chilling inquiry, exposing power, censorship, and abuse through weaponized language.
by Charles Martin
4.3(6,899)
A photographer, weighed down by his Southern estate's past and his late housekeeper's wisdom, must face his estranged father and a broken family to learn how to fight life with his heart.
by Iris Murdoch
3.8(6,884)
An academic's polite world of affairs collapses when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst, sending him into a dark, funny spiral through an incestuous maze of intense passions and unsettling self-discovery.
by Apostolos Doxiadis
4.0(6,823)
A mathematician's life unravels in his obsessive pursuit of Goldbach's Conjecture, only to find its beauty reflected through his nephew's eyes.
by Bertolt Brecht
3.7(6,791)
In a world where goodness means death, a kind woman in Communist China creates a ruthless male alter ego to survive the people she tries to help.
by Luo Guanzhong
4.4(6,786)
After the Han dynasty collapsed, 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms' tells the story of nearly a century of civil war, showing how historical figures and events shaped the power struggles, strategies, and tragic fates of warlords battling to unite China.
by Raymond Queneau
3.7(6,554)
A foul-mouthed country girl's quest to ride the Parisian Metro during a strike devolves into a chaotic, wordplay-filled romp through the city's absurd underbelly.
by Ernest Hemingway
3.1(6,297)
In a whimsical satire, Hemingway lampoons the literary scene and his contemporaries, particularly Sherwood Anderson, through the misadventures of an American writer and a British waitress in a Michigan restaurant.
by Paul O'Prey
3.8(6,262)
A priest's efforts to reform a marquis's corrupt rural estate lead to tragedy amid sexual intrigue, political schemes, and gothic naturalism in 19th-century Spain.
by Dylan Thomas
4.2(6,099)
In the whimsical Welsh coastal town of Llareggub, a single spring day unfolds through the dreams, desires, and absurdities of its unforgettable inhabitants, brought to life by Dylan Thomas's poetic genius.
by Sheridan Le Fanu
3.8(6,028)
Occult detective Dr. Hesselius investigates cases of spectral monkeys, vengeful doppelgängers, and a seductive lesbian vampire preying on Victorian victims.
by Leonard Cohen
3.6(5,875)
A historian's obsession with a 17th-century Mohawk saint, a love triangle, and a search for spiritual and sexual liberation blur the lines between sacred and profane.
by Thomas Mann
3.7(5,772)
Tonio Kröger, caught between his bourgeois background and his artistic pursuits, struggles with his dual identity amidst the ideas of Schopenhauer and Wagner.
by Paul Gallico
4.2(5,747)
On the desolate Essex marshes, a reclusive, disfigured artist and a young girl form an unlikely friendship over a wounded snow goose, a bond that grows as war approaches and culminates in a heroic act at Dunkirk.
by Clyde Edgerton
3.9(5,665)
When a feisty 78-year-old widow with a penchant for pound cake and hymns takes in a stray dog and a teenage delinquent, her quiet Southern life is anything but predictable.
by Charles Maturin
3.7(5,649)
A damned scholar roams the earth for 150 years, desperately seeking a soul desperate enough to inherit his infernal pact and free him from eternal damnation.
by Gertrude Stein
3.7(5,532)
Gertrude Stein's 'Tender Buttons' breaks literary rules with its cubist prose, causing terror, parody, and debate that reflects the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century.
by Samuel Beckett
3.9(5,449)
Buried up to her waist and then her neck, Winnie, with her dwindling possessions and the sporadic company of her mostly unseen husband Willie, relentlessly, and with a smile, battles the encroaching earth and existential dread using only her words.
by William Faulkner
3.9(5,342)
In the decaying grandeur of the Old South, the reclusive Emily Grierson holds a grotesque secret, a symbol of lost love and human desperation.
by V. S. Naipaul
3.9(5,328)
In Miguel Street, a boy grows up among Trinidadian neighbors during World War II, learning about their quirks and dreams in a 'slum' full of individual stories and a strong love for life.
by John Galsworthy
4.0(5,316)
In Victorian England, the possessive Soames Forsyte traps his wife, Irene, in a suffocating marriage, leading her to a scandalous affair that shatters his world.
by Eugene O'Neill
4.0(5,253)
After the American Civil War, the Mannon family unravels in a chilling echo of ancient Greek tragedy, consumed by adultery, murder, and incestuous love that twists their Puritanical facade into a grotesque mask of doom.
by David Lodge
3.9(5,215)
Academics chase prestige, love, and literary theories through a satirical world of international conferences, uncovering the absurdities of their pursuits.