Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does…
Want to Read $ 2.99"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an uXorious Young Zimbabwean."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
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1. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
2. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
3. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
4. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
5. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Friendship,"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"How I will miss the horses."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"You try again. You fail better."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"There are no ghosts, but up here"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
7. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
8. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
9. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
10. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
13. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
14. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
15. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
17. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
18. Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
19. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
20. Ghosts
By: Dolly Alderton
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
21. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
