Troy Chimneys
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.97
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he unc…
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1. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
2. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)
By: Joan Aiken , Pat Marriott
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leav… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell
4.14
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
5. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Nocturnes for the King of Naples
By: Edmund White , Michael Denneny
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startlin… read more
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- novels
- fiction
7. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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11. 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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- british literature
"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
12. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- fiction
13. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
14. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
15. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Last Summer in the City
By: Gianfranco Calligarich
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last S… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
"Tą kartą ir sužinojau, kad du žmonės tyli tyliau už vieną."-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
"There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, wh…"-Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City
17. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
18. Bridge
By: Lauren Beukes
3.68
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more
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- fiction
19. Twice Lost
By: Phyllis Paul
3.61
Format: None pages, Paperback
Novel of suspense in Gothic tradition. "Subtly told, it concerns the disappearance of a little g… read more
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- classics
- fiction
20. Troy Chimneys
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.97
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he unc… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
- modern classics
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
