It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
By: Alistair Mackay
4.36
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, the highly anticipated debut novel by South African author Alistair…
Want to Read $ 10.49"Enough is a decision, not a quantity."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"Enough is a decision, not a quantity."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"Capitalism rights? ... Leave people unhappy enough that they want to buy things, but not so unhappy that they opt out."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"Capitalism rights? ... Leave people unhappy enough that they want to buy things, but not so unhappy that they opt out."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
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1. Arctic Summer
By: Damon Galgut
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letter… read more
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- south africa
- queer
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- lgbt
"I am happy to see you, Masood."-Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?"-Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold."-Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"Even in one’s most physical moments, the real craving was for love."-Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
2. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
3. The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie, #3)
By: Val McDermid
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from one of the world's most celebrated crime writers proves that the past ca… read more
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- fiction
4. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
5. The Good Doctor
By: Damon Galgut
4.62
Format: None pages,
The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at … read more
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- africa
- south africa
- fiction
6. Broken Monsters
By: Lauren Beukes
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit's stan… read more
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7. 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
8. 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
- fiction
"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
9. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- africa
- south africa
- fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
10. An Island
By: Karen Jennings
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more
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11. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- fiction
12. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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- africa
- south africa
- queer
- lgbt
13. Mermaid Fillet
By: Mia Arderne
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this Cape Town, there’s a Goddess who casts raging red storms when female bodies are abused. It’… read more
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- africa
- south africa
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14. Mirage
By: David Ralph Viviers
4.49
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Out here, the past and the future lie over each other, like the strata of koppies. And in certain … read more
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- fiction
15. An Unusual Grief
By: Yewande Omotoso
3.76
Format: 240 pages, None
How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother… read more
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- africa
- fiction
16. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
By: Alistair Mackay
4.36
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, the highly anticipated debut novel by South African author Alistair… read more
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- africa
- south africa
- lgbt
- fiction
- science fiction
- climate change fiction
- speculative fiction
- queer
"Enough is a decision, not a quantity."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"Capitalism rights? ... Leave people unhappy enough that they want to buy things, but not so unhappy that they opt out."-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"It's so stupid, this idea that land can be owned. Land, which existed long before people... It doesn't belong to us. If anything, the soil owns us. It lets us move around for a bit and then it takes …"-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
"He has this blissful sense of the way patterns repeat themselves throughout the universe at different scales. A forest on every mossy tree. A supernova in the iris of an eye. To the gods, we’re tiny …"-Alistair Mackay, It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
17. The Other Me
By: Joy Watson
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Who is Lolly, really? And who is the man who claims to love her? What happens when they drop their … read more
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18. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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- queer
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19. Buried Treasure
By: Sven Axelrad
4.42
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Vivo, where the only cemetery is run by old Mateus and his dog, God. Mateus’s eyes aren’… read more
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- fiction
"she told me not to worry so much - I was dead now and all the worrying had to stop at some point."-Sven Axelrad, Buried Treasure
20. 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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21. Like It Matters
By: David Cornwell
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Ed meets Charlotte one golden afternoon, the fourteen sleeping pills he’s painstakingly collec… read more
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