Fabulous
By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
3.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collecti…
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1. Cuba
By: Emily Barr
3.41
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Maggie finds herself dealing with a lonely apartment and a bo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Architect's Apprentice
By: Elif Shafak
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the heigh… read more
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- fiction
4. The Paying Guests
By: Sarah Waters
3.45
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry ar… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- british literature
"Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"...why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
5. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
6. Journey to the River Sea
By: Kevin Hawkes , Eva Ibbotson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, En… read more
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- fiction
"They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good."-Kevin Hawkes, Journey to the River Sea
7. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
8. Afterward
By: Edith Wharton
4.14
Format: None pages,
Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more
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9. 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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10. A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire #5, Part 2 of 2)
By: George R.R. Martin
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fifth volume, part two of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. … read more
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11. The Hole We're In
By: Gabrielle Zevin
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From award winning writer Gabrielle Zevin comes a biting, powerful, and deliciously entertaining no… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
13. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
14. Intimacies
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.90
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in t… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- british literature
15. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Heavens
By: Sandra Newman
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"It was as if they had never been apart."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"She could hide in this small, dull life."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"But this was reality, occluded and delicate."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
17. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
18. Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
3.48
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"-Daisy Johnson, Sisters
19. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
20. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- british literature
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
22. So Lucky
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . . Beth shows that women really can have it all.Ruby lives life by her own r… read more
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- contemporary
"If you're not dressing for yourself by forty-five then you need to have a major rethink."-Dawn O'Porter, So Lucky
23. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. No Land to Light On
By: Yara Zgheib
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
25. This Is Not A Pity Memoir
By: Abi Morgan
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger? Wh… read more
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- audiobook
26. Consent
By: Annabel Lyon
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,"-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain."-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling."-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?"-Annabel Lyon, Consent
27. Limelight
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Greek Myths: A New Retelling
By: Charlotte Higgins
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time in this beautifully pr… read more
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- retellings
- mythology
- fiction
29. Insatiable
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend; Violet's life is… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
30. All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything
By: Claire Harman
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new por… read more
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31. Fabulous
By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
3.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collecti… read more
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- mythology
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