Zaida: Fragments D'une Vie
By: Anne Cuneo
4.04
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Zaïda, een meisje uit de betere kringen in de negentiende eeuw, wil een leven leiden dat bij haar a…
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1. The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves
3.64
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
In the heart of Calcutta lurks a dark mystery. . . . Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight … read more
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"Matematika je religija za ljude s mozgom, zato ima tako malo pristaša."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
"La mayoría de las tradiciones no son más que las enfermedades de una sociedad."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
"حریفمان آماده بود تا دست به خطر بزند و ما دانش یا تجربه ی هماوردی با او را نداشتیم."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
"Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu srećne?"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
2. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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- fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
3. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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4. Elefant
By: Martin Suter
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Ein Wesen, das die Menschen verzaubert: ein kleiner rosaroter Elefant, der in der Dunkelheit leucht… read more
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5. La Tresse
By: Laetitia Colombani
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Smita, Julia, Sarah. Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Trois chemins que rien ne destine … read more
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6. Tin Man
By: Sarah Winman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more
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7. Il corpo umano
By: Paolo Giordano
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
E un plotone di giovani ragazzi quello comandato dal maresciallo Antonio Rene. L'ultimo arrivato, i… read more
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8. 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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9. Was man von hier aus sehen kann
By: Mariana Leky
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Von der unbedingten Anwesenheitspflicht im eigenen Leben Selma, eine alte Westerwalderin, kann den … read more
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10. Altes Land
By: Dörte Hansen
4.20
Format: None pages,
Zwei Frauen, ein altes Haus und eine Art von Familie Das ,,Polackenkind" ist die funfjahrige Vera a… read more
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11. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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12. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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13. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
14. The Eighth Life
By: Nino Haratischwili
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more
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"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
15. De Camino
By: Anya Niewierra
4.00
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In het nieuwe boek van Hebban Thrillerprijs-winnaar Anya Niewierra komt er een duister geheim naar … read more
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16. The Door-to-Door Bookstore
By: Carsten Henn
4.14
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations … read more
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"If you can tell when a book is good, why don’t you write one yourself?"-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"You need to read more. It makes the brain flexible, so that anything can fit into it."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"She didn't need to believe in God; it was entirely sufficient that God believed in her."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
17. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
18. The Island of Missing Trees
By: Elif Shafak
4.15
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the B… read more
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"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
19. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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20. Windstärke 17
By: Caroline Wahl
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Ida hat nichts bei sich außer dem alten, verschrammten Hartschalenkoffer ihrer Mutter, ein paar Lie… read more
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21. 22 Bahnen
By: Caroline Wahl
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more
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22. Die Wut, die bleibt
By: Mareike Fallwickl
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Aufwühlend, wütend, hellsichtig: Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern… read more
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23. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
24. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
25. The Falling (Brightest Stars, #1)
By: Anna Todd
3.31
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A new love story from the best-selling author of AFTER. Packed with Anna Todd’s trademark tension, … read more
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"The brightest stars burn the fastest, so we must love them while we can."-Anna Todd, The Falling (Brightest Stars, #1)
26. Die Enkelin
By: Bernhard Schlink
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Im Sommer 1964 verlieben sich eine Studentin aus dem Osten und ein Student aus dem Westen ineinande… read more
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27. Les victorieuses
By: Laetitia Colombani
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A 40 ans, Solène a tout sacrifié à sa carrière d'avocate : ses rêves, ses amis, ses amours. Un jour… read more
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28. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
29. Der Apfelbaum
By: Christian Berkel
4.05
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
»Jahrelang bin ich vor meiner Geschichte davongelaufen. Dann erfand ich sie neu.« Für den Roman … read more
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30. Zaida: Fragments D'une Vie
By: Anne Cuneo
4.04
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Zaïda, een meisje uit de betere kringen in de negentiende eeuw, wil een leven leiden dat bij haar a… read more
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31. Gott wohnt im Wedding
By: Regina Scheer
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Ein Haus. Ein Jahrhundert. So viele Lebensgeschichten. Alle sind sie untereinander und schicksal… read more
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