The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
By: Marcel Theroux
3.78
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,…
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By: Kate Murray-Browne
4.44
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy th… read more
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2. Let the Old Dreams Die
By: John Ajvide Lindqvist , Ebba Segerberg
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
A classic short story collection from the writer called Sweden's Stephen King that continues the br… read more
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3. The Silk Tree
By: Julian Stockwin
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forced to flee Rome from the barbaric rampages of the Ostrogoths, merchant Nicander meets an unlike… read more
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4. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
By: Paul Fischer
4.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin… read more
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5. Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
By: Lucia Jang , Susan McClelland
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.… read more
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6. On
By: Adam Roberts
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforg… read more
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7. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
8. Radical Love
By: Neil Blackmore
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more
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9. This Plague of Souls
By: Mike McCormack
3.09
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more
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10. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
11. The Fake
By: Zoe Whittall
3.44
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more
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"There are worse things than telling a lie."-Zoe Whittall, The Fake
12. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Pengu… read more
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13. Kitchen of Witch Hat, vol. 3
By: Hiromi Satō
4.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ya sea para desayunar, comer o cenar, ya sea para disfrutar en casa o de excursión, preparar apetit… read more
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14. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
15. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
By: Sung-Yoon Lee
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more
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16. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
By: Marcel Theroux
3.78
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,… read more
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17. The Circumference of the World
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more
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18. Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
By: Daniel Tudor
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, publ… read more
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19. Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
By: Jonathan P. Thompson
4.32
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natur… read more
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20. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
By: Cho yeeun
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more
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21. Skull Water
By: Heinz Insu Fenkl
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about … read more
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