Out of Mesopotamia
By: Salar Abdoh
3.91
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, …
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1. Gravel Heart
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Par… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Bir yaşa gelmeden hayatın ne kadar uzun olduğunu anlamıyorsun. Her şeyinin bittiğiniz sanıyorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyacı olduğunu anl…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart
2. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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- fiction
"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
3. Suvashun
By: None , Simin Daneshvar , Joaquín Rodríguez Vargas
3.95
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Considerada una obra maestra, esta novela supuso el reconocimiento de Simin Daneshvar como una auto… read more
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- asia
- iran
- fiction
- historical fiction
"عروس روی زین اسب می نشیند تا همیشه بر سر شوهرش سوار باشد."-None, Suvashun
"خدیجه برو حلوای گل زرد بپز... برای گل سرخ من که زرد شده، که خزان کرده..."-None, Suvashun
"گریه نکن خواهرم.در خانه‌ات درختی خواهد رویید و درختهایی در شهرت و بسیار درختان در سرزمینت. و باد پیغام هر درختی را به درخت دیگر خواهد رسانید و درختها از باد خواهند پرسید: در راه که می‌آمدی سحر را ندی…"-None, Suvashun
"کاش دنیا دست زن ها بود. زن ها که زاییده اند یعنی خلق کرده اند و قدر مخلوق خودشان را می دانند. قدر تحمل و حوصله و یکنواختی و برای خود هیچ کاری نتوانستن را. شاید مردها چون هیچ وقت عملا خالق نبوده اند آ…"-None, Suvashun
4. دایی جان ناپلئون
By: None , Iraj Pezeshkzad
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, m… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By: None , Bela Shayevich
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more
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6. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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- asia
7. M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
By: Sue Grafton
4.10
Format: 40 pages,
Approaching middle age warily, PI Kinsey Millhone of the Southern California coast is mildly depres… read more
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- fiction
8. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more
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9. Standard Deviation
By: Katherine Heiny
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… read more
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10. Flush
By: Virginia Woolf , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more
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11. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- literary fiction
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
12. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- fiction
13. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
14. Afterlife
By: Julia Alvarez
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the T… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
15. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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16. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
17. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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18. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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19. Feel Free: Essays
By: Zadie Smith
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Si… read more
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"A mortifying sense of porousness."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Back then, we were all still willing to take the “risk,"-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
20. Out of Mesopotamia
By: Salar Abdoh
3.91
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, … read more
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- asia
- war
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- historical fiction
- iran
- drama
21. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more
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- fiction
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"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
