A History of Housing in New York City
By: Richard Plunz
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
The French architect Le Corbusier once described New York as "a magnificent catastrophe." Since its…
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By: Carol Rifka Brunt
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renew… read more
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2. The Lonely Hearts Hotel
By: Heather O'Neill
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans in love with each ot… read more
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3. The Wonder
By: Emma Donoghue
3.64
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe wh… read more
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"Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
4. The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
By: Roberta Brandes Gratz
3.69
Format: 88 pages,
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was … read more
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5. Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more
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6. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
7. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
8. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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9. 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
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10. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
11. 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
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12. A Calling for Charlie Barnes
By: Joshua Ferris
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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13. A History of Housing in New York City
By: Richard Plunz
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
The French architect Le Corbusier once described New York as "a magnificent catastrophe." Since its… read more
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