Seldom seen & worth considering

Description
Lesser-known fiction that I found for one reason or another especiallly appealing or striking, Listed by no more than a few dozen members. All worth looking into.
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2 members
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11 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
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30 members
1 review
4.8
2 Members
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Explanations
bluepiano: Sordid and disturbing and powerful.
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14 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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65 members
1 review
3.8
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Explanations
bluepiano: The non-fiction accounts of the 9/11 kamikaze attacks are often interesting and occasionally striking but Kobek's novel about one of the hijackers is more powerful & memorable. (google BOMB magazine interview w. Kobek for some telling information.)
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9 members
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82 members
5 reviews
3.2
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32 members
1 review
4
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18 members
1 review
½ 2.3
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31 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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16 members
4
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72 members
3 reviews
3.9
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27 members
2.2
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Explanations
bluepiano: A weird hotel or a hotel weird to a distracted/disturbed protagonist, who knows. A hotel of seductive, perhaps elective, imprisonment, anyway.
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15 members
½ 4.5
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Explanations
bluepiano: Actually, almost all the books by Ramuz I've read belong on this list. This is the least hackneyed and most powerful of all tales about an imminent apocalypse.
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21 members
1 review
½ 2.3
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28 members
½ 3.3
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6 members
4
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Explanations
bluepiano: Never thought I'd find a 17th-century novel a pleasure to read but I did.
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60 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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7 members
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52 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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13 members
1 review
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41 members
½ 3.5
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38 members
2 reviews
4
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6 members
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18 members
1 review
3.8
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47 members
3.9
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71 members
4 reviews
½ 2.3
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13 members
½ 4.5
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Explanations
bluepiano: Thoughtful, evocative, and gorgeous lyric essays.
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37 members
½ 4.3
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Explanations
bluepiano: novels, stories, parodies, journalism, and some of the marvellous plays by a cynic who had perfect pitch for the vernacular.
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12 members
1 review
4
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16 members
2 reviews
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2 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Explanations
bluepiano: Hugely enjoyable pastiches.
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12 members
1 review
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11 members
4
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19 members
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25 members
1 review
4
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27 members
2 reviews
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18 members
½ 4.5
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22 members
5
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52 members
5 reviews
3.1
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48 members
4
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18 members
2 reviews
3.1
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Explanations
bluepiano: I'd have done as well putting any of Parei's books here as they're all very good. Bonus selling-point: The author has a cool name.