Death on Darby’s Island
By: Alice Walsh
3.66
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Nothing exciting ever happens on Darby's Island, Newfoundland. That is until one summer afternoon i…
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1. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
2. The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
By: Anne Rice
4.10
Format: 1207 pages, Paperback
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft … read more
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"Telling people-did it ever make things better?"-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
"Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them."-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
"I was poisoned by love, that in the call of Suzanne I was awakened to love, and to the nightmare of want."-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
"I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it."-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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- fiction
4. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
By: James Patterson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Beautifully captures the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
5. The Perfect Girlfriend
By: None
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his air… read more
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6. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
By: Susanna Clarke , Charles Vess
1.80
Format: 76 pages,
Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norr… read more
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7. The Boat People
By: Sharon Bala
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more
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8. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)
By: Peter Robinson
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
9. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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10. 1979
By: Val McDermid
3.78
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
11. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
12. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
13. 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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- fiction
"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
14. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
15. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- fiction
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
16. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)
By: Ian Ferguson
3.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
17. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- fiction
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
18. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
19. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
20. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
By: Margot Douaihy
3.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
21. VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more
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- fiction
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
22. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
23. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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24. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman
4.54
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more
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25. Some Hellish
By: Nicholas Herring
3.61
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Herring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old t… read more
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26. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
27. Meant to Be Mine
By: Hannah Orenstein
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the author of Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chl… read more
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28. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)
By: Hartley GoodWeather
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
29. What's Past is Prologue (Joanne Kilborn #21)
By: Gail Bowen
3.76
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
When Libby Hogarth, the go-to lawyer for the rich or famous who have committed heinous crimes, come… read more
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- mystery
30. Death on Darby’s Island
By: Alice Walsh
3.66
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Nothing exciting ever happens on Darby's Island, Newfoundland. That is until one summer afternoon i… read more
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- mystery
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31. Three Burials
By: Anders Lustgarten
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying wild-ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Meet Cherry, a bandit q… read more
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