A Tall History of Sugar
By: Curdella Forbes
3.23
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.…
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1. Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Discontent and Its Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid traces the fracture lines generated by a decade a… read more
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- audiobook
"The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television…"-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
"In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and p…"-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
2. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
3. Desertion
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.90
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"There is, as you can see, an I in this story, but it is not a story about me. It is one about all of us, about Farida and Amin and our parents, and about Jamila. It is about how one story contains ma…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Desertion
4. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
5. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
By: Laura Kasinof
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later--after a friend at a l… read more
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7. Spirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
8. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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9. Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more
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10. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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11. Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1)
By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir , Bernard Scudder
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At a university in Reykjavik, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out an… read more
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12. The Bone Readers
By: Jacob Ross
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak... When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chi… read more
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13. The Weight of Ink
By: Rachel Kadish
4.15
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"My grandmother," Ester said, "wished not to trap her love into taking her. She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny...."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"Then it was only right that she do as her spirit told her, and let the struggle itself answer the question of which was the stronger: her will or her womanly nature."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
"A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him."-Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink
14. El siglo de las luces
By: Alejo Carpentier
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
El siglo de las luces novela el impacto de la Revolucion francesa en las Antillas: los suenos de li… read more
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15. Miguel Street
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum! because he could see no more. But t… read more
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16. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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17. Saint Maybe
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more
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18. A Mother's Secret: A beautiful, heartbreaking novel of love, loss and hidden tragedy
By: Renita D'Silva
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
What if you discovered that everything you knew about yourself was a lie? When pregnant Jaya loses … read more
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19. In the Country of Others
By: Leïla Slimani
3.76
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
20. A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
By: Tahmima Anam
3.80
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"How very close it is to illness. The loose, restless limbs. The feverish cheeks. The burning salt of the heart. The prickle of sweat. Love. "-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
"There was only one thing to do, she decided: make pickles. The mangoes on the tree were just about ready: grassy-green and tongue-smackingly sour. She asked the boys to pick them from the tree. When …"-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
21. The Black God's Drums
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
22. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
23. A Disappearance in Fiji
By: Nilima Rao
3.89
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
25. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
26. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
27. The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2)
By: Jenn Lyons
4.06
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
You can have everything you want if you sacrifice everything you believe. Kihrin D'Mon is a wan… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"She defined the meter by which he measured all beauty."-Jenn Lyons, The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2)
"If you hear my dying screams, avenge me." Star shrugged. "Not sure how. You're the one with the fancy sword."-Jenn Lyons, The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2)
"I've been through and seen a lot. I'm a master at accepting the impossible." "The way your hands are shaking suggests otherwise."-Jenn Lyons, The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2)
28. On a Woman's Madness
By: Astrid H. Roemer
3.43
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
29. Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
By: Daniel José Older
3.75
Format: 359 pages, ebook
A YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other while fighting for their diaspora commun… read more
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- romance
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"One lie will bring the whole house of lies crashing down."-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
"They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time."-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
30. A Tall History of Sugar
By: Curdella Forbes
3.23
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
31. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
