If the River is Hidden
By: Cherry Smyth
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'If the River is Hidden' charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann…
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1. Un mundo huérfano
By: Giuseppe Caputo
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Un padre y un hijo intentan sobrevivir a la pobreza. Viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a oril… read more
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2. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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5. Pure
By: Andrew Miller
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath … read more
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7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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8. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
9. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
10. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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11. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
12. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
13. 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
14. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
15. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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16. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
17. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
18. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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19. Strega
By: Johanne Lykke Holm
3.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a r… read more
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"Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen."-Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega
20. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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21. Ti amo
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.86
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more
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22. Two Sherpas
By: Sebastián Martínez Daniell
3.62
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpa… read more
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"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
23. Standing Heavy
By: Gauz
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more
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24. With or Without Angels
By: Douglas Bruton
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
'The thought in my head does not yet have shape or form, only direction, one picture leading into a… read more
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25. If the River is Hidden
By: Cherry Smyth
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'If the River is Hidden' charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann… read more
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- travel
- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
26. Sylvia
By: Maithreyi Karnoor
3.67
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Longing to connect to his ancestral roots, Cajetan Pereira has taken up residence near one of the r… read more
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27. Old Romantics
By: Maggie Armstrong
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A few years ago my husband recommended me for a job in his company, and I thought it would be fun,… read more
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28. Femke
By: David Cameron
3.86
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
Turn-of-the-century Amsterdam. Femke walks its streets and parks with her loyal dog, Bibi. A daught… read more
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29. Body Compost & other ghost poems
By: Eloise Armary
5.00
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you a house haunted by complex relationships? Body Compost & other ghost poems is a collecti… read more
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30. Cherries on a Pomegranate Tree
By: Li Er
3.82
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Americans, babies and… camels? In one-child China, when a mother runs from home because of her i… read more
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31. Rivers of the Unspoilt World
By: David Constantine
3.24
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Described as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictio… read more
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