Leaning Towards Infinity
By: Sue Woolfe
3.74
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
A prize-winning tale about three women - mother, daughter and grandmother - and the conflicts that …
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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.98
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more
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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
2. My Name Is Lucy Barton
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more
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3. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
5. The Tsar of Love and Techno
By: Anthony Marra
4.00
Format: 274 pages,
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena--dazzling, poignan… read more
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6. The House of the Spirits
By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin
4.28
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more
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"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
7. The Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more
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8. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
9. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
10. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
11. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
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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"...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. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
14. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
15. Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more
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16. The Burning Island
By: Jock Serong
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A father’s obsession. A daughter’s quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself … read more
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"The early morning had a faint drizzle in it. Tiny specks, a day that meant itself to be fine but had somehow leaked."-Jock Serong, The Burning Island
"One such man, an islander named Drew, strode into a Launceston rooming house looking—and here Srinivas suddenly became awkward—for the services of a good woman. I nearly laughed: from all I’d heard, …"-Jock Serong, The Burning Island
"As we neared, the great mass of Wilson’s Promontory stretched southward out of the coast on our right, and the island drew threads of cloud from the low sky and teased them into mirages: the island w…"-Jock Serong, The Burning Island
17. Less (Arthur Less, #1)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.63
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
PROBLEM: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail:… read more
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"Maybe I’m a bad writer."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"Fuck love and just get fat."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"You should kiss me like it’s goodbye."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
18. Corporal Hitler’s Pistol: Winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize
By: Tom Keneally
3.59
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA… read more
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19. Leaning Towards Infinity
By: Sue Woolfe
3.74
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
A prize-winning tale about three women - mother, daughter and grandmother - and the conflicts that … read more
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