Twelve notable books that end mid-sentence

Gabe Habash named twelve books that end mid-sentence for PWxyz, the news blog of Publishers Weekly, including:

The Long Division by Derek Nikitas (2009)

The Ending:

The bullet never reached the brain and they were all still alive, and he was a sinless, drifting fetus. He turned his eyes to the sun but he did not curse God. He raised his hands and reached and held everything inside of them. The tower with its hundred windows sailed along, parallel to the infinite points he crossed. And he wasn’t afraid because death would never reach its final–

Why: Nikitas’s stop-start novel, which moves and jumps between characters throughout, finishes the only way it could: as a violent last gasp, the final intersection of a series of events that includes a ripped-up earlobe and a cast of characters that steals and kills. It was never going to be a happy (or tidy) ending.

Read about another book on the list.

The Page 69 Test: The Long Division.

--Marshal Zeringue