If All the World and Love Were Young
By: Stephen Sexton
4.04
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t…
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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- poetry
4. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
5. An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
By: Deborah Levy
3.57
Format: 208 pages,
Sheis a shimmering, tattooed, and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs o… read more
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- poetry
6. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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7. The Charioteer
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' … read more
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8. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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9. A Boy's Own Story
By: Edmund White
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A B… read more
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10. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
11. Wolf in White Van
By: John Darnielle
1.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more
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12. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
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13. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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14. Physical
By: Andrew McMillan
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Raw and urgent, these poems are hy… read more
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15. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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16. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- poetry
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
17. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
18. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
By: J. Robert Lennon
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today … read more
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- nonfiction
- video games
21. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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- poetry
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
22. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
23. Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more
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- nonfiction
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
24. If All the World and Love Were Young
By: Stephen Sexton
4.04
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t… read more
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- poetry
- video games
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
25. The Sun is Open
By: Gail McConnell
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more
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- poetry
26. Ruth & Pen
By: Emilie Pine
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
27. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- ireland
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
28. Alone in Space: A Collection
By: Tillie Walden
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alone In Space compiles award-winning cartoonist Tillie Walden’s short comics into a stunning and c… read more
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29. Soho
By: Richard Scott
4.09
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more
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- nonfiction
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31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
