Significant Other
By: Isabel Galleymore
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2020 John Polla…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
3. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
4. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabet… read more
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"Drink up your wine,' ordered Poirot."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
"I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up."-Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
5. Scale
By: Will Self
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
'Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.' The short story 'Scale' … read more
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6. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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7. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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8. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is … read more
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9. Tell Me the Truth about Love
By: None
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Had he been writing now, Auden might well have penned a poem entitled "Tell me the Truth About Publ… read more
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10. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11. Riccardino (Inspector Montalbano, #28)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.77
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Anno 2005: Camilleri ha appena pubblicato La luna di carta. Sta lavorando alla successiva avventura… read more
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12. Surge
By: Jay Bernard
4.22
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
*Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2019* Jay Bernard’s extraordinary d… read more
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13. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
14. How to Wash a Heart
By: Bhanu Kapil
4.15
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Bhanu Kapil's extraordinary and original work been published in the U.S. over the last two decades … read more
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"Because living with someone who is in pain Requires you to move in a different way."-Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
15. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
16. The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more
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17. The Other End of the Line (Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #24)
By: Andrea Camilleri
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have be… read more
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18. The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.94
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach… read more
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19. Death at Sea: Montalbano's Early Cases (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive,… read more
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20. The Cook of the Halcyon (Inspector Montalbano, #27)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.88
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series … read more
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21. The Sicilian Method (Inspector Montalbano, #26)
By: Andrea Camilleri
3.89
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series… read more
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22. The Safety Net (Inspector Montalbano, #25)
By: Andrea Camilleri
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery seriesVig… read more
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23. Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
By: Nadya Tolokonnikova
4.15
Format: 272 pages, ebook
From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical prot… read more
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"Being a punk is about constantly surprising... Being a punk means systematically changing the image of yourself, being elusive, sabotaging cultural and political codes...Undermine, transform, exceed …"-Nadya Tolokonnikova, Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
"We don't want to be passive squares, boring phonies, or conformists seduced by comfort trapped in a repetitive, endless ritual of consuming, who keep buying shit that's thrown at us as a bone, who fo…"-Nadya Tolokonnikova, Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
24. All the Men I Never Married
By: Kim Moore
4.34
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more
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25. A God at the Door
By: Tishani Doshi
4.06
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and spa… read more
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26. Mother, Nature
By: Aoife Lyall
4.50
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnan… read more
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27. Significant Other
By: Isabel Galleymore
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Shortlisted for the 2020 John Polla… read more
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28. Sonnets for Albert
By: Anthony Joseph
3.99
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more
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29. pandemonium
By: Andrew McMillan
4.19
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN , FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE * After two prize… read more
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30. Cheryl's Destinies
By: Stephen Sexton
3.78
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
"history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn't" It is the decade o… read more
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31. Ransom
By: Michael Symmons Roberts
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021***A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*Ransom , the n… read more
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