Shell
By: Kristina Olsson
3.33
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
“A luminous look at a city at a time of change, a time when the building of the Sydney Opera House …
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1. The Secrets at Ocean's Edge
By: Kali Napier
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
1932. Ernie and Lily Hass, and their daughter, Girlie, have lost almost everything in the Depressio… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- australia
- historical fiction
- book club
2. Ein ganzes Leben
By: Robert Seethaler
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Als Andreas Egger in das Tal kommt, in dem er sein Leben verbringen wird, ist er vier Jahre alt, un… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
By: Hannah Green , Joanne Greenberg
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality int… read more
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- fiction
4. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
By: Holly Ringland
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Illusion of Separateness
By: Simon Van Booy
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man's act of … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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7. The Faraway Nearby
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is… read more
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8. And What Do You Do Mr. Gable?
By: Richard Flanagan
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Austr… read more
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9. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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10. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
11. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Scenes of a Graphic Nature
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- historical
- book club
- audiobook
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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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
15. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
16. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
17. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
18. The Conversion
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
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- audiobook
19. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
20. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
21. The Trio
By: Johanna Hedman
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating th… read more
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- literary fiction
- sweden
- fiction
22. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
23. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
24. Inside the Beautiful Inside
By: Emily Bullock
3.68
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
—It’s 1800 and American sailor James Norris is imprisoned in Bedlam, physically restrained in the m… read more
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25. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
By: Richard Flanagan
3.71
Format: 240 pages, ebook
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- audiobook
26. The Bass Rock
By: Evie Wyld
3.70
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock
27. Somebody Loves You
By: Mona Arshi
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more
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- adult
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28. Bad Relations
By: Cressida Connolly
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive novel about three generations of one family, by the author of AFTER THE PARTY - a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
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29. Let Go My Hand
By: Edward Docx
3.96
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Louis Lasker loves his family dearly – apart from when he doesn’t. There’s a lot of history. His fa… read more
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- fiction
"I gave her everything I could give," He winces as if there's a nerve which gets trapped in his heart whenever it pulls in a certain direction."-Edward Docx, Let Go My Hand
30. Shell
By: Kristina Olsson
3.33
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
“A luminous look at a city at a time of change, a time when the building of the Sydney Opera House … read more
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- cultural
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- historical
- book club
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- historical fiction
- australia
- adult
- sweden
- audiobook
31. 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
