Eileen: The Making of George Orwell
By: Sylvia Topp
4.02
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supp…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
3. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
4. In Country
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling novel and deeply affecting story of a young girl who comes to terms with her father… read more
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5. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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6. The Yellow Dog (Maigret #6)
By: Georges Simenon , Linda Asher
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town sus… read more
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8. Encounter
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unpa… read more
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9. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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10. Coming Up for Air
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an a… read more
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11. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more
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12. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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13. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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14. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- british literature
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
15. 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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16. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
17. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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18. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
19. 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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- biography
20. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
21. 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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"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
22. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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23. Three Hours
By: Rosamund Lupton
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning's lessons, a dress rehearsal of Ma… read more
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24. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
By: Heather Clark
4.58
Format: 1154 pages, ebook
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more
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- biography
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
25. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
26. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
27. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
28. The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
By: Dorian Lynskey
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The author has written a study that places George Orwell's 1984 in a variety of contexts: the autho… read more
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- biography
29. Eileen: The Making of George Orwell
By: Sylvia Topp
4.02
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supp… read more
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