FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ I think most readers would classify 'The Shining' as a horror novel.

A horror novel with a very short sales window

[ZodWallop]

It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis is $1.99 at Amazon US.

It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.

Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ I think most readers would classify 'The Shining' as a horror novel.

I agree but couldn't find the horror section. Should be stickied for those of us with occasional poor search skills. I did find it later.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Tarana

I agree but couldn't find the horror section. Should be stickied for those of us with occasional poor search skills. I did find it later.

It was fine in fiction. People should feel free to list deals in whatever sticky is the best fit if they don’t want to go searching. There was a point when the stickies had taken over; there were 18 of them! When they were pruned, horror didn’t make the cut.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Tarana

The Shining by Stephen King $2.99

Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Shining-Ste...9162951&sr=8-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-shining-1

Harumph. Missed it.

[ZodWallop]

House of Earth by Woody Guthrie is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US.

Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story of an ordinary couple’s dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.

Tike and Ella May Hamlin are struggling to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself—fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth.

A story of rural realism and progressive activism, and in many ways a companion piece to Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land,” House of Earth is a searing portrait of hardship and hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency and narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D. H. Lawrence, here is a powerful tale of America from one of our greatest artists.

An essay by bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp introduce House of Earth, the inaugural title in Depp’s imprint at HarperCollins, Infinitum Nihil.

[GA Russell]

True Grit - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MXBL7Y8

[maddz]

Today's Big Deal at Amazon.co.uk is the first 5 books in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Big-...ode=4725112031

All are 99p each.

[sufue]

Oooh, thank you. My son will love these. He has some old PDFs we scanned ourselves from old used bookstore copies, but these will be much nicer.

Originally Posted by maddz

Today's Big Deal at Amazon.co.uk is the first 5 books in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Big-...ode=4725112031

All are 99p each.

[pdurrant]

The First Jeeves Omnibus by P G Wodehouse is just £0.99 at Amazon UK today.

This Omnibus contains "Thank You, Jeeves", "The Code of the Woosters" and "The Inimitable Jeeves".

[BetterRead]

Boy Wonder by James Robert Baker is currently $2.99 at Amazon US.

Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and outrageous the better. Fueled by a nonstop supply of sex and drugs, Shark's life and work become increasingly bizarre and erratic. Yet we meet a different side of Shark too, as we learn how he saved a group of Sunday school teachers held hostage by terrorists, prevented a horrific attack on Nancy Reagan by a sex-crazed donkey, and single-handedly took out a squad of dangerous neo-Nazis posing as disabled schoolchildren. It all leads up to a wild and explosive finale when, against all odds, one of Shark's films finds itself a contender for the Academy Awards--but the ceremony doesn't go exactly according to plan...

Riotously funny, wickedly politically incorrect, and completely impossible to put down, James Robert Baker's satire of the film industry Boy Wonder (1988), long revered as a cult classic, returns to print at last in this new edition, which includes an afterword by his partner, Ron Robertson.

[tch65721]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OI0G1Q

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.

[tch65721]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OCXGZA

[ZodWallop]

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I usually post the synopsis, but this one is super long.

[ZodWallop]

Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They’re in their teens in the 1940s, too young to go to war but marked by it nevertheless. Their father is the local baker, and nothing suggests they will live storied lives. Yet, in this sprawling saga, each member of the family pushes against the grain of history and confronts the perils and pleasures of a world devastated by conflict and transformed by American commerce and culture.

A memorable novel by one of America’s greatest twentieth-century authors, Rich Man, Poor Man offers a gripping ride through America between the Second World War and Vietnam.