The Wedding Party
By: Liu Xinwu
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you t…
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1. A Line Made By Walking
By: Sara Baume
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about … read more
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"Art, and sadness, which last forever."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"I open my eyes to find the morning adjourned."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"People don't like it when you say real things."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
2. A Severed Head
By: Iris Murdoch
3.74
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel … read more
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- literature
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"I could not see other human beings at present."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart..."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
"I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."-Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
3. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
By: Guy Delisle
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China,… read more
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- china
4. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
5. The Great Passage
By: Shion Miura , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-w… read more
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6. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
7. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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- asia
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- asian literature
- novels
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
8. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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- literature
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
9. The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
By: Shion Miura
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. A Guest at the Feast
By: Colm Tóibín
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy a… read more
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11. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more
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"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
12. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
By: Eleni Kyriacou
4.18
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Cocoon
By: Zhang Yueran
4.03
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up togethe… read more
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- novels
- literature
- historical
- asia
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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- china
"If the gods deal you a terrible hand, all you can do is play it as best you can."-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
"We’re born kind, but it slips away as we age. Remember how fervently we searched for the truth when we were kids?"-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
"This may be the most complicated thing about being human: acknowledging our mistakes doesn’t mean drawing a line under them; as long as we’re still drawing breath, we’ll keep facing new tests, and we…"-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
14. Ghost Music
By: An Yu
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more
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"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"-An Yu, Ghost Music
15. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- historical
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
16. The Wedding Party
By: Liu Xinwu
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you t… read more
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- china
- adult
17. Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more
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- adult
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18. Ninth Building
By: Zou Jingzhi
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Ninth Building" is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growi… read more
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19. My Big, Fat Desi Wedding
By: Prerna Pickett
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Desi Wedding Must-Haves: Drama. Food. Fashion. More Drama. More food. And, of course, nosy aunties … read more
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20. A Bánh Mì for Two
By: Trinity Nguyen
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more
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