Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor…
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
2. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- british literature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
3. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
4. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
6. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
7. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
8. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
11. 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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- art
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"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
12. 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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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"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
13. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
14. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
15. The Birthday Party
By: Laurent Mauvignier
3.75
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
17. 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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18. 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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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
19. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
20. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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- art
21. Tell
By: Jonathan Buckley
3.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
22. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
23. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- film
- british literature
- media tie in
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
24. The Book of All Loves
By: Agustín Fernández Mallo
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
By: Ian Penman
4.02
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more
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- media tie in
- art
- film
- 21st century
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
26. Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
By: Marie Darrieussecq
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French … read more
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27. Porn: An Oral History
By: Polly Barton
3.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the a… read more
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28. The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Emergency
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
30. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- contemporary
