The Burning River
By: Lawrence Patchett
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. City of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #10)
By: Michael Connelly
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Trade Paperback
Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave al… read more
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- fiction
3. The Fat Man
By: Maurice Gee
4.16
Format: 76 pages,
Herbert Muskie is The Fat Man. When he catches skinny, hungry Colin Potter stealing a chocolate bar… read more
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- fiction
4. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- fiction
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5. 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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- fiction
6. P.S. I Love You
By: Cecelia Ahern
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again. Now in paperback, the endearing n… read more
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7. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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8. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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9. See You In September
By: Charity Norman
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just word… read more
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10. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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11. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
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12. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
13. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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- fiction
14. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
15. Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
By: Chloe Gong
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
The first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a marr… read more
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"Lie first; figure out the rest later."-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"Beautiful. Arrogant. Conniving. In this decade, who wasn't?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
"What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?"-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)
16. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
By: Pat Barker
3.90
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more
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"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
17. Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
By: Vanessa Len
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in Lon… read more
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"What am I?"-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
"Don't look at them. Look at me." -Aaron Oliver"-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
"A Hunt and an Oliver together? How very Romeo and Juliet."-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
"You're a hero and I'm a monster. There's only one way that story ever ends."-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)
18. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)
By: Chris Hammer
4.01
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more
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- fiction
19. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
20. The Secrets of Strangers
By: Charity Norman
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
From the authr of Richard and Judy Book Club pick After The Fall comes a gripping and moving novel,… read more
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"She’s a firm believer in the healing power of normality. The ordinary little things: the sharing of stories, of food, of smiles, of small comforts. These are the key to survival."-Charity Norman, The Secrets of Strangers
21. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
22. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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- fiction
23. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- fiction
24. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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- fiction
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
25. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- fiction
26. Harbouring
By: Jenny Pattrick
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes… read more
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- fiction
27. Last Violent Call (Secret Shanghai, #3.5)
By: Chloe Gong
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding… read more
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- fiction
28. The Burning River
By: Lawrence Patchett
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau… read more
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29. The Contingency Plan
By: Steve Waters
3.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in April 2009. read more
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30. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
