Act of darkness
By: Francis King
3.95
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
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1. Death in Kashmir
By: M.M. Kaye
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains abov… read more
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- india
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2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- novels
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
4.22
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more
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"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
4. Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)
By: Greg Egan
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace… read more
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- fiction
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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- literary fiction
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6. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- mystery
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"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
7. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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8. The Cry of the Owl
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.04
Format: 40 pages,
Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police h… read more
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9. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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10. The City and the Pillar
By: Gore Vidal
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A literary cause celebrewhen first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic Th… read more
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11. The Arabian Nightmare
By: Robert Irwin
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, gui… read more
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12. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- mystery
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
13. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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- mystery
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
14. Witch King
By: Martha Wells
3.71
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more
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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."-Martha Wells, Witch King
15. The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
3.64
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more
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"None of us are truly good,"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
16. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
17. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
18. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
19. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
20. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- fiction
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
21. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
23. Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
By: Alice Hoffman
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hof… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Never watch another woman burn"-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
24. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
25. Ascension
By: Nicholas Binge
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more
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- fiction
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."-Nicholas Binge, Ascension
"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"-Nicholas Binge, Ascension
26. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- novels
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- historical fiction
27. The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
3.80
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
28. Lord Jim at Home (McNally Editions)
By: Dinah Brooke
3.77
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described a… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
29. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
30. Act of darkness
By: Francis King
3.95
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
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31. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
