River
By: Esther Kinsky
3.66
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
A woman moves to a London suburb near the River Lea, without knowing quite why or for how long. Ove…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- 21st century
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
3. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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- german literature
- literature
- germany
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- german literature
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5. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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- literature
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- british literature
6. My Documents
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and… read more
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- literature
- fiction
7. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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- german literature
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- germany
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8. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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9. 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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10. A Book of Memories
By: Péter Nádas , Imre Goldstein , Ivan Sanders
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, A Book of Memories is bot… read more
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11. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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12. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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13. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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14. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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- literature
- 21st century
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15. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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16. 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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- german literature
- literature
- germany
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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
17. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
18. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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- travel
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
19. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- germany
20. 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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21. Dunkelblum
By: Eva Menasse
3.78
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem. Auf den ersten Blick ist Dunkelblum eine Kleinstadt wie jede a… read more
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22. 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
23. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- british literature
- literature
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- 21st century
- novels
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
24. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
25. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
26. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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27. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- 21st century
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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
28. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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- 21st century
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
29. Affinities: On Art and Fascination
By: Brian Dillon
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur… read more
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- photography
30. Index Cards: Selected Essays
By: Moyra Davey
4.14
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins… read more
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- photography
31. River
By: Esther Kinsky
3.66
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
A woman moves to a London suburb near the River Lea, without knowing quite why or for how long. Ove… read more
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