The Quality of Mercy
By: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
4.35
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
This is indeed a story of mercy – and the redemption it offers. On the eve of his retirement, Spoke…
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1. Bridge of Clay
By: Markus Zusak
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. … read more
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"It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise."-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
"Writing is always difficult, but easier with something to say."-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
"There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same."-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
"There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground."-Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay
2. Red Ink
By: Angela Makholwa
3.81
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
When Lucy Khambule receives an unexpected call from a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The Butche… read more
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3. The Satanic Mechanic (Tannie Maria Mystery, #2)
By: Sally Andrew
3.98
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus … read more
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- mystery
- africa
- fiction
"I looked through the diet sheet she'd given me and shook my head. I'd never use these recipes in my column, they gave punishment instead of comfort. Punishment to those who enjoy food and have a litt…"-Sally Andrew, The Satanic Mechanic (Tannie Maria Mystery, #2)
4. When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
By: Kate Atkinson
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Go… read more
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5. There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more
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7. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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- africa
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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
8. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
9. 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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10. Children of Sugarcane
By: Joanne Joseph
4.49
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth n… read more
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11. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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- fiction
12. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
13. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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14. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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15. 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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- 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
16. A Quiet Life
By: Ethan Joella
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more
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"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life
17. Leo (Bennie Griessel, #8) (Afrikaans Edition)
By: Deon Meyer
4.41
Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition
’n Student se dood in die berg by Stellenbosch lyk verdag. ’n Oud-recce vermoor as ’n boodskap. ’n … read more
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- fiction
18. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
By: Annabel Abbs
3.92
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more
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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
19. The Aftermath
By: Gail Schimmel
4.26
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
Three a mother, a daughter, a friend. Can they save each other from the past? It’s been twenty-si… read more
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20. An Angel's Demise: A Novel
By: Sue Nyathi
3.99
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
An Angel’s Demise is an epic saga that explores a contested legacy and the heartrending destiny of … read more
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21. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- fiction
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
22. Girls of Little Hope
By: Sam Beckbessinger
3.80
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
A chilling and eerie tale of monsters, teen angst and small-town America for fans of Stranger Thing… read more
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- fiction
23. For you I’d steal a goat
By: Niq Mhlongo
3.70
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This short story collection is filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots and twist endings… read more
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"Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them."-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat
"One day this apartheid will be a thing of the past. Our people will be free.’ ‘Maybe. But the past claws its way out. You can’t bury it just like that. It’s not like human flesh. And yet we need to m…"-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat
"Politicians like us must also be entertained in order to lead the people [...]‘It is the duty of the taxpayers to always foot our bill. Whether they like it or not, complain or not, it is their duty …"-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat
24. The Blessed Girl
By: Angela Makholwa
3.71
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
When you are accustomed to the finer things in life – designer shoes, champagne, VIP lounges, exoti… read more
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25. The Gold Diggers
By: Sue Nyathi
4.30
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
It’s 2008 and the height of Zimbabwe’s economic demise. A group of passengers is huddled in a Toyot… read more
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26. The Quality of Mercy
By: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
4.35
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
This is indeed a story of mercy – and the redemption it offers. On the eve of his retirement, Spoke… read more
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27. The Eye of the Beholder
By: Margie Orford
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull? Cora carries… read more
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"The messages were intimate, haiku-length compositions. None of them false, none of them true either."-Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder
"Those of us who survive live on as dark stars,' murmured Cora, 'We are invisible, but we collapse the light."-Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder
"Hotel rooms, she'd tweeted into the insomniac internet, make everybody feel welcome and no one feel at home."-Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder
"Freya sensed her mother's damage in the fluid worlds she painted, where beauty and cruelty were hard to distinguish."-Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder
28. Lost Property
By: Megan Choritz
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
One morning Laine wakes up to discover that the man she's been married to for 15 years has been sec… read more
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29. God's Pocket
By: Sven Axelrad
4.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A cabin. A quarry. A crazy plan to run away and write a novel. From the author of the exciting … read more
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30. 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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