Afternoon of a Faun
By: James Lasdun
3.74
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn’t mean it didn’t exist, because it did ex…
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1. İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
By: Yaşar Kemal
4.48
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insa… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"memed: “ümmet kardaş, herkesin ektiği toprak, herkesin olursa nasıl olur?"-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
"Toprak yağlı, ışıl ışıldır. Bire kırk, bire elli vermeye hazırlanmıştır. Sıcacık, yumuşacıktır."-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
"Görüş sahası ne kadar dar olursa olsun, insan muhayyilesi geniştir. Değirmenoluk köyünden başka hiçbir yere çıkmamış bir insanın bile geniş bir hayal dünyası mevcuttur. Yıldızların ötelerine kadar uz…"-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
2. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- novella
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"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
3. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.50
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of susp… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
6. First Love
By: Gwendoline Riley
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
From "one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer), a blistering account of a marri… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
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- contemporary
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7. The Immoralist
By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan
3.55
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more
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"Existing is occupation enough."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."-André Gide, The Immoralist
"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."-André Gide, The Immoralist
8. La Chatte
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Lorsque debute leur vie commune, Alain et Camille sont deux amis d'enfance que tout en apparence ra… read more
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- fiction
9. Fludd
By: Hilary Mantel
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal villa… read more
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10. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
11. Doppler (Doppler, #1)
By: Erlend Loe , Jozef Zelizňák
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Orman hem veriyor hem alıyor. Ona gelenleri de kendine benzetiyor."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"Люди вообще обладают одним поразительным свойством: как только они заполняют собой пространство, ты начинаешь видеть исключительно их, а не это самое пространство."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"Год за годом меня вела по жизни бескомпромиссная первоклассность. В ней я просыпался, в ней я засыпал. Я дышал безупречностью. И как-то постепенно, незаметно упустил саму жизнь. Господи, не приведи д…"-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
12. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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13. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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14. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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15. Los armarios vacíos
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, prol… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Farklılıkların paradan kaynaklanabileceği hiç aklıma gelmezdi, insanların doğuştan temiz ya da pasaklı, zevk sahibi ya da sallapati olduğunu sanırdım. Ayyaşlık, konserve et, kenefin yanındaki çiviye …"-Annie Ernaux, Los armarios vacíos
16. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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- audiobook
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
17. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
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"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
18. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
19. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
20. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- british literature
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
21. The Body in Question
By: Jill Ciment
3.59
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sov… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
22. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
23. Travelling in a Strange Land
By: David Park
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
"And I have come to understand the truth of what Ansel Adams said that you don’t make a photograph just with a camera but that you bring to the act all the pictures you have seen, the books you have r…"-David Park, Travelling in a Strange Land
"Then I discover when you take a step forward, even a small step, the fear doesn’t exercise such a tight grip. It’s still there but it’s somehow reduced and you allow yourself to feel less of a helple…"-David Park, Travelling in a Strange Land
24. Nonfiction
By: Julie Myerson
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more
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- adult
25. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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- adult
- fiction
26. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
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"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
28. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
29. Afternoon of a Faun
By: James Lasdun
3.74
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn’t mean it didn’t exist, because it did ex… read more
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- novella
- gender
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
30. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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