A Writer's Diary
By: Toby Litt
3.11
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A WRITER’S DIARY IS A NOVEL THAT BLENDS FACT AND FICTION, invention and memoir with joyful creativi…
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1. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. All the Devils Are Here
By: David Seabrook
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this study of East Kent, David Seabrook combines his observations of the towns' cultural and pol… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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5. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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6. 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)
7. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
8. 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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"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
9. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
10. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
11. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
12. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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13. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
14. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
15. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
16. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
17. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
18. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. The Silence Project
By: Carole Hailey
3.76
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their … read more
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20. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
By: Alex Pheby
3.60
Format: 617 pages, Hardcover
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more
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"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
21. 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
22. Briefly, A Delicious Life
By: Nell Stevens
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.In 14… read more
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"I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"The world is full of cowards she thinks. And it turns out sometimes the opposite of cowardice is playfulness."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
"(...) thought of all that could be done between two women in possession of bodies, what effects could be achieved with fingers and tongues."-Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life
23. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
24. Wish I Was Here
By: M. John Harrison
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most origin… read more
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"Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else."-M. John Harrison, Wish I Was Here
25. Sagittarius
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.81
Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxiou… read more
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26. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
27. My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is
By: Paul Stanbridge
3.93
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is, the extraordinary follow-up to his prize-winning novel Forbidden Lin… read more
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28. I Am Sovereign
By: Nicola Barker
3.57
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying – and … read more
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29. A Writer's Diary
By: Toby Litt
3.11
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A WRITER’S DIARY IS A NOVEL THAT BLENDS FACT AND FICTION, invention and memoir with joyful creativi… read more
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30. The Book Of Desire
By: Meena Kandasamy
4.08
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
'I invite you, dear reader, to enter this beautiful world. I invite you to fall in love.' The Bo… read more
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