Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir
By: Marina Warner
3.84
Format: None pages, None
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.‘Wonderful – a…
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1. Regarde les lumières mon amour
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
2. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more
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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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4. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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5. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
By: Josephine Tey
3.77
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more
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6. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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7. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
8. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
9. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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11. 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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12. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
13. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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15. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
16. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.40
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more
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17. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
18. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
19. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
4.58
Format: 1154 pages, ebook
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
20. 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
By: Annabel Streets
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walkin… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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22. Zorrie
By: Laird Hunt
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hun… read more
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"You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"As she began to doze, she wondered if when you rode in airplanes, love, even old impossible love, sent hearts tumbling end over end."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
"She asked Janie what it was like to have a mother, and Janie leaned over and gave Zorrie a kiss on the top of her head and then turned her around and gave her a quick kick in her seat and told her th…"-Laird Hunt, Zorrie
23. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
24. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure
By: Monisha Rajesh
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
By: Francesca Peacock
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cave… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
26. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
By: Brian "Box" Brown
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
By: Rachel Cohen
4.11
Format: 388 pages, Paperback
Each chapter of "A Chance Meeting" takes up an actual encounter between two historical figures. As … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
28. Black and Female: Essays
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.In Black and Female, Tsitsi D… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir
By: Marina Warner
3.84
Format: None pages, None
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.‘Wonderful – a… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- egypt
- autobiography
- nonfiction
30. 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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"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
