The View from Castle Rock
By: Alice Munro
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th…
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1. A Lost Lady
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that … read more
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- literary fiction
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"Tears flashed into her eyes. "That's very dear of you. It's sweet to be remembered when one is away." In her voice there was the heart-breaking sweetness one sometimes hears in lovely, gentle old son…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"Under the bluffs that overhung the marsh he came upon thickets of wild roses, with flaming buds, just beginning to open. Where they had opened, their petals were stained with that burning rose-colour…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
"He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's f…"-Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
2. The View from Castle Rock
By: Alice Munro
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th… read more
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- nobel prize
- literary fiction
- canada
- canadian literature
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Time Will Darken It
By: William Maxwell
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. The Locals
By: Jonathan Dee
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Odessa Stories
By: Isaac Babel , Boris Dralyuk
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictio… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
6. Oxygen
By: Andrew Miller
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Oxygen is a contemporary tale of courage, love and liberation. It is the latest novel from the winn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
7. The Train Was on Time
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre… read more
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- fiction
8. The Information
By: Martin Amis
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. The Conservationist
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his … read more
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- nobel prize
- literary fiction
- fiction
10. On Violence
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth… read more
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11. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
12. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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- fiction
13. Every Man for Himself
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The sinking of the world's greatest luxury liner, the invincible and magnificent S. S. Titanic, has… read more
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14. Call It Sleep
By: Alfred Kazin , Henry Roth , None
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acc… read more
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15. The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold remains one of Eveyln Waugh's most remarkable and self-revealing work… read more
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16. The Wars
By: Timothy Findley
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars.… read more
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17. In the Skin of a Lion
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between hist… read more
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18. A Gate at the Stairs
By: Lorrie Moore
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the … read more
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19. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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20. The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
By: Laura Cumming
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and pa… read more
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21. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
22. 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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"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
23. A Guest at the Feast
By: Colm Tóibín
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy a… read more
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24. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
25. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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26. Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William Jam… read more
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27. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
By: Benjamin Taylor
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more
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28. Vamos Todos Morrer Outra Vez (Portuguese Edition)
By: Hugo van der Ding
4.33
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
100 biografias breves de gente que já lá estáDE CLÉOPATRA A ISABEL UMA PEREGRINAÇÃO ENLUTADA PELA … read more
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29. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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- canada
30. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- short stories
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31. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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