Oscar Wilde (Literary Lives)
By: Vyvyan Holland
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Wilde's son blends glimpses of his famous and infamous father's private life into an account of his…
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1. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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- literature
"I'm dead, but I'm fine."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
2. Galápagos
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages,
Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more
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- literature
3. Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
4. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
5. Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)
By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue… read more
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6. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories th… read more
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7. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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8. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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9. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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10. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
11. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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12. 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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13. The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elen… read more
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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- literature
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
15. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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- lgbt
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
16. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
17. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
18. Elolliset
By: Iida Turpeinen
4.38
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retki… read more
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19. 36 uurnaa : väärässä olemisen historia
By: Sirpa Kähkönen
3.59
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Kirjailija Sirpa Kähkösen äiti Riitta (s. 1941) kuoli maaliskuussa 2022 pitkään sairastettuaan. Elä… read more
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20. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
21. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
22. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
23. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
24. Face It
By: Debbie Harry
3.61
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
25. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
26. Kapitalismin suuri illuusio
By: Riina Tanskanen
4.30
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Kapitalismi on täynnä virheitä. Riina Tanskanen ja Samu Kuoppa esittelevät yhdeksän keskeistä valhe… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Mikään ei todella katoa
By: Laura Gustafsson
3.59
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Pyörremyrskymäinen tarina eläinteollisuudesta, idealismista ja lajirajat ylittävästä kumppanuudesta… read more
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28. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
29. Oscar Wilde (Literary Lives)
By: Vyvyan Holland
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Wilde's son blends glimpses of his famous and infamous father's private life into an account of his… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
30. Hankalat sanat
By: Janne Saarikivi
3.60
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Politiikan piiri on tuottanut uusia käsitteitä niin kauan kuin politiikkaa ja sanoja on ollut olema… read more
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- nonfiction
