Girl
By: Edna O'Brien
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2019) I was a girl once, but not anymore. So beg…
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1. The Queen of Palmyra
By: Minrose Gwin
3.89
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Harper Lee's classic comes this story of 11-year-old Florence Forrest, an only … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
"That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cak…"-Minrose Gwin, The Queen of Palmyra
2. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
3. The Story of a Life
By: Aharon Appelfeld , Aloma Halter
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned … read more
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4. Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)
By: J.M. Coetzee , Paul Auster
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
The high-spirited correspondence between New York Timesbestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel lau… read more
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5. Drei Frauen
By: Robert Musil
3.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
Robert Musil: Drei Frauen (Novellen) * >GrigiaDie Portugiesin>(1923), >Tonka>Eine grosse Fremdheit … read more
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- fiction
6. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
7. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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8. Liquidation
By: Imre Kertész , Tim Wilkinson
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Imre Kertesz's savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaus… read more
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9. Leaving Before the Rains Come
By: Alexandra Fuller
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller "One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god t… read more
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10. The Weight of Things
By: None , Marianne Fritz
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only transl… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."-None, The Weight of Things
"...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying."-None, The Weight of Things
11. 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
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- 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
12. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
13. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
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- audiobook
14. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
15. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
16. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
17. Revolução
By: Hugo Gonçalves
4.50
Format: 495 pages, Paperback
Do autor do celebrado Deus Pátria Família, um romance arrojado sobre o período mais revolucionário … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Geordnete Verhältnisse
By: Lana Lux
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Wenn man seine Heimat verlassen muss, kommt es immer darauf an, wo man landet und welche Leute man … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Of Dogs and Walls
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.68
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls
20. Girl
By: Edna O'Brien
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2019) I was a girl once, but not anymore. So beg… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
21. The Saint of Lost Things
By: Tish Delaney
3.97
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
>I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me h… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
22. L'usure d'un monde: Une traversée de l'Iran
By: François-Henri Désérable
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"La peur était pour le peuple iranien une compagne de chaque instant, la moitié fidèle d'une vie. L… read more
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23. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
By: Amelia Gentleman
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation, and led to the resignation of… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
24. Nos pères, nos frères, nos amis - Dans la tête des hommes violents
By: Mathieu Palain
3.99
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
Après sa série « Des hommes violents » pour France Culture en 2019, Mathieu Palain a voulu prolonge… read more
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25. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
By: R. Derek Black
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
26. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
27. California
By: Mark Arax
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Passenger vola per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti per occuparsi di uno stato eccezionale, sot… read more
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28. Girl in the Making
By: Anna Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Adults forget that children can hear’Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a ver… read more
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29. Onde as Garças Voam
By: Elisabete Martins de Oliveira
4.34
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Durante toda a vida, Matilde procurou fugir das memórias opressoras da sua infância. Assim que atin… read more
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30. The Cameraman
By: Matthew Kneale
3.47
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister's … read more
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- fiction
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31. Passiontide
By: Monique Roffey
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deat… read more
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- fiction
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