The Arctic
By: Don Paterson
3.96
Format: 64 pages, None
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
3. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more
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"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits g…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"[I]n music there is no meaning, there is no explanation, there are no people, only voices, each with its own special distinctive quality, as though this is its essential quality, its essence, unadult…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
4. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
5. 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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6. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
By: Ted Hughes
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Hardcover
Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more
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7. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
8. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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9. Blonde Roots
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.11
Format: 98 pages,
The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly tur… read more
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10. Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanvaerk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgard nadelost og … read more
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11. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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12. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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13. Min kamp 5 (Min kamp #5)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Femte bind av den selvbiografiske romanen Min kamp er skrevet med voldsom kraft og oppriktighet. Ka… read more
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14. Cathedral
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more
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15. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more
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16. Autumn
By: Karl Ove Knausgård , Ingvild Burkey , Vanessa Baird
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the monumental My Struggleseries, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of con… read more
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17. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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18. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
19. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
20. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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21. 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
22. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
23. Three Poems
By: Hannah Sullivan
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 201… read more
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24. 100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of … read more
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25. Nobody
By: Alice Oswald
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit… read more
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26. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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27. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
By: Nam Le
4.05
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more
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28. The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
By: Jacob Kerr
2.95
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, liv… read more
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"Time passed slowly and the heat was sticky, maddening, imprisoning. Dawn was the only time that had any freshness; by mid-morning the day's shape had been rolled flat as dough by the heat, and you we…"-Jacob Kerr, The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
29. The Arctic
By: Don Paterson
3.96
Format: 64 pages, None
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30. Clara Reads Proust
By: Stéphane Carlier
3.59
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, pep… read more
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31. Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic
By: Simon Armitage
4.11
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects… read more
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