The Comeback Summer
By: Geoff Lemon
4.30
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Geoff Lemon takes on The Comeback Summer of cricket, in this gripping follow-up to the multi-award-…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.17
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingd… read more
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"How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Per…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"What do I do?" Asked the princess. "You keep your head down." She looked at me petulantly. "Like hell I will. If we're going to die, I'm going down fighting, even if I'm terrible with a weapon." "Fai…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresome…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"Tale a rain check on that date?' I said, turning to Perkins. 'In the Magic Industry,it's kind of "Spell First, Fun Second".' 'I kind of figured that,' he replied, 'so why don't we make this assignmen…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
3. Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket
By: Christian Ryan
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kim Hughes was one of the most majestic and daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 yea… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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5. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina i… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
By: Garth Nix
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with … read more
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8. Red Country (First Law World, #6)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.11
Format: 70 pages, ebook
They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hope… read more
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9. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browder
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more
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10. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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11. Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home
By: Mikael Lindnord
3.37
Format: 395 pages,
When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing yo… read more
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12. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
13. 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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14. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
15. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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16. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
By: Ben Macintyre
4.16
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more
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17. The cricket war: The inside story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
By: Gideon Haigh
3.94
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
18. The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
By: Chris Hadfield
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional debut thriller and “exciting journey” into the dark heart of the Cold War and the sp… read more
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19. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
20. Stone Blind
By: Natalie Haynes
3.82
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more
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"Then look."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
21. This Is What Happened
By: Mick Herron
3.42
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a… read more
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22. Miss Benson's Beetle
By: Rachel Joyce
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more
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"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
23. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
24. The Survivors
By: Jane Harper
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more
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25. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
By: Rebecca Quin
4.51
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
26. The Lost Man
By: Jane Harper
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more
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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
27. What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
By: Marina Hyde
4.10
Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.Re… read more
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28. The Golden Maze
By: Richard Fidler
4.21
Format: 580 pages, Hardcover
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is bac… read more
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29. The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
By: Christopher Harding
4.20
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories … read more
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30. Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way
By: Gideon Haigh
4.05
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I'm not proud of what's happened. Y’know, it's not within the spirit of the game.’ Steve Smith was… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Comeback Summer
By: Geoff Lemon
4.30
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Geoff Lemon takes on The Comeback Summer of cricket, in this gripping follow-up to the multi-award-… read more
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