Way Far Away
By: Evelio Rosero
3.68
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia’s most influential living novelists. Way Far A…
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1. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- fiction
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
2. Such Small Hands
By: Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that ca… read more
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- fiction
3. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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4. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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- literature
- fiction
5. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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6. El viento que arrasa
By: Selva Almada
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more
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7. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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- literature
- fiction
8. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.72
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more
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- fiction
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
9. Carcoma
By: Layla Martínez
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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- fiction
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
10. Pelea de gallos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.15
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –o destruye– a la… read more
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- fiction
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
11. Sacrificios humanos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoa… read more
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- fiction
12. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
13. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
14. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
By: Mathias Énard
3.86
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more
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- fiction
"We all ape God in His absence."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
15. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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- fiction
16. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- fiction
17. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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- fiction
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
18. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- fiction
19. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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20. Way Far Away
By: Evelio Rosero
3.68
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia’s most influential living novelists. Way Far A… read more
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21. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro
By: Liliana Colanzi
3.69
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more
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- fiction
22. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
23. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
24. Ungeenheden
By: Fine Gråbøl
3.68
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more
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"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden
25. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- literature
26. Furia
By: Clyo Mendoza
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
En un desierto salpicado de poblados asolados por la guerra, dos desertores de bandos opuestos desc… read more
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"Il mercante finì il racconto con una battuta che non c'entrava nulla. Ridendo tra sé disse: è da pazzi credere che il Diavolo vesta sempre in modo elegante."-Clyo Mendoza, Furia
27. Ten Planets: Stories
By: Yuri Herrera
3.54
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vul… read more
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- fiction
28. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
By: Yōko Tawada
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more
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29. Fábulas feministas y otros textos
By: Suniti Namjoshi
3.84
Format: 262 pages, None
This ingenious reworking of fairy tales, mixing Greek and Sanskrit mythology with original material… read more
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30. Festival & Game of the Worlds
By: César Aira
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 ye… read more
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- fiction
31. She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.13
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality… read more
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