How To Be a Revolutionary
By: C.A. Davids
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her …
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1. A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
3.83
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
2. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3. We Want Everything
By: Nanni Balestrini
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist It was 1969, and tempe… read more
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- historical
- politics
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the a… read more
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- fiction
5. Thirteen Cents
By: K. Sello Duiker
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the postcard mountain and sea, has its own shad… read more
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6. Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "re… read more
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7. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- historical
- politics
8. Torto Arado
By: Itamar Vieira Junior
4.49
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Olha, dona"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
9. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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- africa
- south africa
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Is Mother Dead
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.80
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
11. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
12. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- contemporary
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
13. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- contemporary
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
14. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. La Disparition de Josef Mengele
By: Olivier Guez
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine. Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tor… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
By: Joseph Andras
4.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France … read more
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- africa
- historical
- politics
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
17. I Fear My Pain Interests You
By: Stephanie LaCava
2.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t… read more
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- fiction
19. How To Be a Revolutionary
By: C.A. Davids
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her … read more
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- africa
- south africa
- historical
- politics
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- china
20. A Short Life
By: Nicky Greenwall
4.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
‘What are you thinking about?’ ‘I think I might have killed someone’ How far would you go to pr… read more
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21. The Child
By: Alistair Mackay
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency, a young man… read more
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- contemporary
