The Poor Folk and the Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
1915. Two works from Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, who is considered one of the most outstanding an…
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1. Alias Grace
By: Margaret Atwood
4.04
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more
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"The small details of life often hide a great significance."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
"[...] in this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees."-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
4. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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5. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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6. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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8. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
By: Leo Tolstoy , Rosemary Edmonds
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would … read more
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9. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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10. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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11. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L… read more
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12. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
13. The Complete Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
5.00
Format: 144 pages,
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more
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14. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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15. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
16. You Don't Know Me
By: David Klass
3.00
Format: None pages,
John ("My father named me after a toilet!") wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows hi… read more
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17. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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18. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
19. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
20. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."-Elif Batuman, Either/Or
21. The Poor Folk and the Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
1915. Two works from Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, who is considered one of the most outstanding an… read more
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