England Away
By: John King
3.56
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
England Away works on three levels - past, present and future - as pensioner Bill Farrell remembers…
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1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.20
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zo… read more
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"But . . ."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
2. Lullaby
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"I'm in love. So kill me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"We're all of us haunted and haunting."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people still think knowledge is power."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
3. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 548 pages, Paperback
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
4. Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography
By: Don McCullin
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many bri… read more
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5. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more
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"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
6. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.08
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more
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"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
7. Whit
By: Iain Banks
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes t… read more
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- literature
- novels
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"there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions."-Iain Banks, Whit
8. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.85
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more
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"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
9. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- literature
- novels
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- british literature
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
10. The Second Coming
By: John Niven
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
GOD'S COMING - LOOK BUSY! God really is coming, and he is going to be pissed. Having left his son i… read more
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- novels
- fiction
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12. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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- literature
- novels
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- 20th century
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
13. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
14. Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
By: Dmitry Glukhovsky
4.02
Format: 458 pages, Paperback
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destro… read more
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"„alle haben Angst vor irgendwas, aber wovor, weiß keiner."-Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
"»Sprich nie vom Recht des Stärkeren. Du bist zu schwach dafür«,"-Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
"„Nicht Weisheit und Erfahrung sprachen aus ihm, sondern Alter und Müdigkeit."-Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
"El ser humano ha sido siempre un asesino muy superior al resto de criaturas"."-Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
15. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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- 20th century
"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
16. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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17. The Blade Artist
By: Irvine Welsh
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more
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18. 1985
By: Anthony Burgess
3.33
Format: 140 pages,
In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one … read more
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19. The Twelve Chairs
By: Ilya Ilf , Yevgeny Petrov , None , None
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He … read more
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20. Reheated Cabbage
By: Irvine Welsh
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingr… read more
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21. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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22. The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant, #6)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
The Hanging Tree was the Tyburn gallows which stood where Marble Arch stands today. Oxford Street w… read more
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23. The Night in Lisbon
By: Erich Maria Remarque , Эрих Мария Ремарк , Ralph Manheim
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survi… read more
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24. The Day of the Jackal
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
25. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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26. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
By: Irvine Welsh
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened … read more
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27. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.36
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
A fantastic starter set for new Tolkien fans or readers interested in rediscovering the magic of Mi… read more
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28. Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.16
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an … read more
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"Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it"-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
29. Post Office
By: Charles Bukowski
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more
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"It began as a mistake."-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
30. England Away
By: John King
3.56
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
England Away works on three levels - past, present and future - as pensioner Bill Farrell remembers… read more
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