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These books will make you cooler by just having them near. Still, we insist
you give 'em a read since they are a vivisection of the best fiction out there.
Read them on the subway at midnight or with a leg dangling from the fire
escape if you must.

The Wild Things is another remarkable book from the
publishing house of McSweeney's. Dave Eggers takes the
children's picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, and
expands its story into a full-length movie and a novel. The
result is a deeper and darker monstrous world, where you
finally understand why Max is so unrelentingly mischievous.
This fur-bound edition of Egger's novel is very cozy in bed
and certain to be a collectible.

Aimee Bender writes unconventional short fiction. What
does that mean? In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt,
Bender's short stories begin with premises usually reserved
for dreams. By the end she makes us believe the dreams
are our own. She tells stories about a wife's marital
difficulties when her husband returns from the war without
lips. Not unconventional enough? How about a high school
love story between a stilt-wearing nymph and a mermaid
that hides her tail under long skirts. Bender's more erotic
stories seem plucked from Salvador Dali's wet dreams.
Simply, Aimee Bender is creating some of the most
uniquely creative short fiction out there today.

Before "To Catch a Predator" there was Lolita. The book
has lived a double life, both banned from libraries and
considered one of the best novels ever written. Narrated by
a charming pedophile named Humbert Humbert, author
Vladimir Nabokov crosses a boundary that bounces your
emotion across the pages. You feel so inside the head of
Humbert that though you will fight to dislike him, you have
no choice but to understand him.

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