The Lying Days
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white …
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1. The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
By: Elspeth Huxley
4.11
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering … read more
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"How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water."-Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
"Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement."-Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
"What sorts of sin?" Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural."-Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
"...when the present stung her, she sought her antidote in the future, which was as sure to hold achievement as the dying flower to hold the fruit when its petals wither."-Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. The Home and the World
By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice
3.83
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more
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"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
4. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
5. The Edible Woman
By: Margaret Atwood
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiance… read more
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6. Lighthousekeeping
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious m… read more
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7. Vernon God Little
By: D.B.C. Pierre
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more
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8. The Little Stranger
By: Sarah Waters
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."--Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer i… read more
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9. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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10. Still Life
By: A.S. Byatt
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which c… read more
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12. Surfacing
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more
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13. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
14. Shame
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more
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15. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
16. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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17. Shuggie Bain
By: Douglas Stuart
4.31
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more
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"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
18. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
19. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
20. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
21. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
22. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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23. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
24. 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
25. 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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"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
26. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
27. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
28. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
By: David Lipsky
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more
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29. 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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30. Shoko's Smile: Stories
By: Choi Eunyoung
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young wri… read more
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"We should distinguish love from affection."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Film, art in general, only revealed it’s true face to hardworking geniuses, not hardworking mediocrities."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
31. The Lying Days
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white … read more
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