Palmares
By: Gayl Jones
2.92
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
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1. Sudden Death
By: Natasha Wimmer , Álvaro Enrigue
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that co… read more
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- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Encuerados, solo deberían alborotarnos los monstruos, y sin embargo lo que nos trastorna es lo que se asemeja a un estándar"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"Ya no era cosa de vida o muerte, sino de victoria y derrota--valores mucho más complejos y duros de llevar porque el que pierde un duelo a espada no tiene que vivir con ello."-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
"It isn't a book about Caravaggio or Quevedo, though Caravaggio and Quevedo are in the book, as are Cortés and Cuauhtémoc, and Galileo and Pius IV. Gigantic individuals facing off. All fucking, gettin…"-Natasha Wimmer, Sudden Death
2. Adult Onset
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
"Non sa bene quanti “altri"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset
"She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though cla…"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset
3. Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Timesbestselling… read more
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- literature
- fiction
4. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more
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- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
5. The Sport of Kings
By: C.E. Morgan
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Hellsmouth, a wilful thoroughbred filly, has the legacy of a family riding on her. The Forges: one … read more
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6. Masters of Atlantis
By: Charles Portis
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical… read more
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7. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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8. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
9. The End of Drum-Time
By: Hanna Pylväinen
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
12. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
13. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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- audiobook
14. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- race
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
15. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
17. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
18. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Monkey Boy
By: Francisco Goldman
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
20. The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
3.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
21. Telephone
By: Percival Everett
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow ar… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
22. Imagine Me Gone
By: Adam Haslett
3.69
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family fa… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"Imagine me gone, imagine it’s just the two of you. What do you do?"-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
"It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear."-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
23. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- literature
- magical realism
- fiction
- audiobook
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
24. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
25. Palmares
By: Gayl Jones
2.92
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great lit… read more
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- race
- magical realism
- literature
- historical
- brazil
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
26. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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- race
- audiobook
27. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories
By: Daniel Mason
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner, a collection … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
28. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Haitian revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in November… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
29. Call Me Cassandra
By: Marcial Gala
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From Marcial Gala, the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, Call Me Cassandra is a dark… read more
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
30. When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
By: Quan Barry
4.01
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswe… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
