The Last Gift of the Master Artists
By: Ben Okri
3.59
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The moment before the world changed and innocence was lost – Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about li…
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1. The Year of the Runaways
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.87
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota—a … read more
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"Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites."-Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
2. A Grain of Wheat
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Gr… read more
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- africa
- african literature
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- historical fiction
3. About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more
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4. Remarkable Creatures
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on th… read more
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5. Holloway
By: Robert Macfarlane , Stanley Donwood , Dan Richards
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll a… read more
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6. Soul Mountain
By: Gao Xingjian , Mabel Lee
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lu… read more
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7. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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- fiction
"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
8. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
9. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
10. Amnesty
By: Aravind Adiga
3.28
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author … read more
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11. The Phoenix Bride
By: Natasha Siegel
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love in seventeenth-century London from the acclai… read more
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12. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- nigeria
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
13. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
By: Angela Saini
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more
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14. 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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15. Patsy
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.92
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfi… read more
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16. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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17. The Silence Factory
By: Bridget Collins
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more
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18. An Ordinary Wonder
By: Buki Papillon
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Ordinary Wonder is a story of the courage needed to be yourself. Oto leaves for boarding scho… read more
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19. The Last Gift of the Master Artists
By: Ben Okri
3.59
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The moment before the world changed and innocence was lost – Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about li… read more
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20. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
By: Alex Edmans
4.08
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefield… read more
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