The Fortune Men
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.80
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust…
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1. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
2. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
3. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
4. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
5. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
6. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- literary fiction
- race
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
7. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
8. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
9. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
10. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
11. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
13. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
14. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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- british literature
15. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
16. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
17. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
18. An Island
By: Karen Jennings
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more
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- africa
- fiction
- audiobook
19. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. The Fortune Men
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.80
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more
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- race
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- british literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
- mystery
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- audiobook
21. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
