No Way But Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life
By: Richard Hines
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke. --Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the Sou…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)
By: Kristen Lepionka
3.97
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager, disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents … read more
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"Be nice, but not too fucking nice."-Kristen Lepionka, The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)
"People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in fron…"-Kristen Lepionka, The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)
3. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
4. Elizabeth Is Missing
By: Emma Healey
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbrea… read more
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5. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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6. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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7. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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8. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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9. The Third Man & The Fallen Idol
By: Graham Greene
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occup… read more
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10. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
By: Brian Moore
3.76
Format: 234 pages,
'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also… read more
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11. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
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"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
12. The Heart of a Woman
By: Maya Angelou
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of … read more
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13. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
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15. Gather Together in My Name
By: Maya Angelou
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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16. Last Orders
By: Graham Swift
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more
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17. Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey
By: Jackie Kay
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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19. Suite Française
By: Irène Némirovsky , Sandra Smith
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
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20. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Child (Kate Waters, #2)
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3.94
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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"People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together w…"-Fiona Barton, The Child (Kate Waters, #2)
22. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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"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
23. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
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4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
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24. A Single Thread
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3.75
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
25. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
26. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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27. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
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"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
28. White
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a de… read more
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"[I]t seems that everyone has fallen under the thrall of this idea that we’re all writers and dramatists now, that each of us has a special voice and something very important to say, usually about a f…"-Bret Easton Ellis, White
29. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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30. No Way But Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life
By: Richard Hines
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke. --Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the Sou… read more
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