Not Even the Dead
By: Juan Gómez Bárcena
3.73
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
A claim of justice for the losers of history with echoes of authors as different as Joseph Conrad, …
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1. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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2. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
3. 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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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"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
4. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
5. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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6. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
7. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
8. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The New Naturals
By: Gabriel Bump
2.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely n… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
11. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
14. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
16. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
17. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
"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
18. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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20. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. 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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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- spain
- religion
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
23. The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
By: Tricia Romano
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legen… read more
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24. Tomás Nevinson
By: Javier Marías
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with per… read more
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- literature
- spain
- spanish literature
- fiction
"Dziesięć lat to dużo i zarazem nic, dużo w życiu jednostki i nic w kontekście znanych i nieznanych nam czasów. Nie jesteśmy jednak w stanie kierować się tymi drugimi, nie umiemy spojrzeć na siebie ja…"-Javier Marías, Tomás Nevinson
25. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- magical realism
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- historical
- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- fiction
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
27. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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28. Declaración de las canciones oscuras
By: Luis Felipe Fabre
4.17
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
En agosto de 1592 arriban al monasterio de Úbeda un alguacil y sus dos ayudantes, con la secreta en… read more
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- historical
- spain
- spanish literature
- religion
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- historical fiction
29. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
30. Not Even the Dead
By: Juan Gómez Bárcena
3.73
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
A claim of justice for the losers of history with echoes of authors as different as Joseph Conrad, … read more
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- magical realism
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- spanish literature
- religion
- fiction
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