The Variations
By: Patrick Langley
3.35
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. …
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1. Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch
By: Witold Gombrowicz , J.A. Underwood
3.80
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
"Smuggling the most up-to-the-minute contraband in antiquated charabancs-that's what I like doing,"… read more
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- literature
- fiction
2. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye
4.11
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more
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- literature
3. 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
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
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
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
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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- literature
- literary fiction
- 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. 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
- 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
8. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- 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
9. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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
- 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
11. Intervals
By: Marianne Brooker
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more
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12. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. 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
14. The Variations
By: Patrick Langley
3.35
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. … read more
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- music
- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
15. 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
16. The Observable Universe: An Investigation
By: Heather McCalden
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more
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17. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
19. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"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
20. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. 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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