Escape to an Autumn Pavement (Caribbean Modern Classics)
By: Andrew Salkey
3.38
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first publ…
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1. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- fiction
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
2. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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- fiction
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
3. Poor Cow
By: Nell Dunn
3.60
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1967, this novel tells the story of Joy living amongst the shiftless poor in Lon… read more
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- fiction
4. Thin Ice
By: Compton Mackenzie
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Perhaps it was strange that George Gaymer should have become a friend of Henry Fortescue at Oxford … read more
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- fiction
5. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- fiction
6. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- fiction
7. Anita and Me
By: Meera Syal
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daugh… read more
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- fiction
8. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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- fiction
9. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
10. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
11. One by One in the Darkness
By: Deirdre Madden
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
A story about three Northern Irish sisters. It has a double narrative, part of which describes thei… read more
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12. Home Fire
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more
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13. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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14. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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15. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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- fiction
- queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
16. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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17. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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18. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
19. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
20. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
21. The Only Story
By: Julian Barnes
3.61
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is… read more
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- fiction
"If you're going to be a grown-up,"-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"And who does not want their love authenticated?"-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"You realize that tough love is also tough on the lover."-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"First love fixes a life for ever: this much I have discovered over the years."-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
22. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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- fiction
- queer
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
23. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
24. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
25. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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- fiction
26. The Stars Did Wander Darkling
By: Colin Meloy
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A suspenseful and atmospheric horror set in 1980s Oregon, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Neil… read more
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- fiction
27. 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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- fiction
"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
28. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
29. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
30. Escape to an Autumn Pavement (Caribbean Modern Classics)
By: Andrew Salkey
3.38
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first publ… read more
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- fiction
- queer
31. Hackenfeller's Ape
By: Brigid Brophy
3.71
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again. In London Zoo, Profe… read more
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