Long Stay in a Distant Land
By: Chieh Chieng
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted chees…
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1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
By: Fredrik Backman , Henning Koch
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a novel about a young girl who… read more
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2. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.92
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more
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"Tom!"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Company would be a palpable improvement"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. Rebecca
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.93
Format: 245 pages, ebook
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our hero… read more
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5. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
7. Persuasion
By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch
4.15
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more
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"Time will explain."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
8. Summer Lightning
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more
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9. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
10. Once Upon a River
By: Diane Setterfield
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more
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"There must be more to stories than you think."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
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"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
11. Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
By: Renée Rosen
4.03
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
It’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined … read more
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12. Kaikeyi
By: Vaishnavi Patel
4.19
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more
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"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi
13. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
By: Alix E. Harrow
4.03
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As t… read more
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"Books are Doors and I wanted out."-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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"It isn’t pain or suffering that unmakes a person; it’s only time."-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
14. Long Stay in a Distant Land
By: Chieh Chieng
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted chees… read more
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