I Is a Long Memoried Woman
By: Grace Nichols
4.01
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in …
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
By: Barry Unsworth
4.12
Format: 630 pages, Paperback
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with… read more
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- fiction
"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way"-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa
4.26
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more
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- school
"To each his own way of calming down."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
4. Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
By: Ken Saro-Wiwa
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first p… read more
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- fiction
- school
5. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
6. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- classics
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
7. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
8. She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.57
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. I… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Life is not worth the trouble of life, except when one in love."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
9. The Long Song
By: Andrea Levy
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Man Booker Prize Nominee (2010) You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book,… read more
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- fiction
10. Swing Time
By: Zadie Smith
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abou… read more
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- fiction
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- fiction
- classics
- school
12. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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- fiction
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
13. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
14. Telling Tales
By: Patience Agbabi
3.79
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant reeinterpretation of The Canterbury Talesfor the 21st centuryTabard Inn to Canterb'ry C… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- school
15. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
16. Cambridge
By: Caryl Phillips
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities--and barely veiled br… read more
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17. Tales from Outer Suburbia
By: Shaun Tan
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbiais by turns hilarious a… read more
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18. Happy Endings
By: Margaret Atwood
4.12
Format: 440 pages, ebook
Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more
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19. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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21. At the Bottom of the River
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.29
Format: 368 pages,
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, int… read more
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22. The Landlady
By: Roald Dahl
4.00
Format: 279 pages,
The Landlady is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the ta… read more
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23. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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- fiction
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
24. Surge
By: Jay Bernard
4.22
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
*Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2019* Jay Bernard’s extraordinary d… read more
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- poetry
25. Guts (Smile, #3)
By: Raina Telgemeier
4.31
Format: 144 pages, None
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just… read more
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"Thoughts can exist... feelings can exist... but words do not always exist."-Raina Telgemeier, Guts (Smile, #3)
26. 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
27. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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- fiction
"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
28. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more
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- fiction
"Yet I wish I had a cat."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
29. Tales from the Inner City
By: Shaun Tan
4.29
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Tales from the Inner City is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strang… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men."-Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City
"And when you died I took you down to the river. And when I died you waited for me by the shore. So it was that time passed between us."-Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City
"How much do I love our family? This much. When any kind of emergency strikes, good or bad, we snap together like parts in a machine, like a submarine crew at war in the tin-can clutter of our home, n…"-Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City
"And, once again, the bears showed us. There they were, God help us, the Ledgers of the Earth, written in clouds and glaciers and sediments, tallied in the colours of the sun and the moon as light pas…"-Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City
30. The Lamplighter
By: Jackie Kay
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This work takes the the reader on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. It is both a radio a… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
31. I Is a Long Memoried Woman
By: Grace Nichols
4.01
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in … read more
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- post colonial
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