Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
By: Jenny Uglow
4.24
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglo…
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1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.20
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zo… read more
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"But . . ."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
2. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- biography
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3. Birthday Letters
By: Ted Hughes
3.90
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- literature
- autobiography
- nonfiction
"What happened casually remains -"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"What happens in the heart simply happens."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
4. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more
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"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
5. The Patrick Melrose Novels (Patrick Melrose #1-4)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AnAtlantic MagazineBest Book of the Year A Publishers WeeklyBest Book of the Ye… read more
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- literature
6. Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)
By: Gerald Durrell
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Fami… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- animals
7. The Hand of Ethelberta
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching… read more
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- literature
- victorian
8. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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- literature
9. Why Homer Matters
By: Adam Nicolson
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
"Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly s… read more
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10. The Diary of a Nobody
By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more
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11. Hangover Square
By: Patrick Hamilton
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more
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12. The Pale Blue Eye
By: Louis Bayard
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothycomes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, f… read more
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13. Le Mystère Henri Pick
By: David Foenkinos
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
En Bretagne, un bibliothécaire décide de recueillir tous les livres refusés par les éditeurs. Ainsi… read more
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"Rouche era fatto così, era costantemente in ritardo sulla versione migliore di se stesso."-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick
"Eso es lo bonito de las lágrimas: que pueden tener significados opuestos. Se llora de dolor, se llora de felicidad. Pocas manifestaciones físicas tienen esa identidad de dos cabezas, como para materi…"-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick
"В качестве эпиграфа к своему роману он выбрал известную, отмеченную провидческой иронией, фразу Джонатана Свифта: "О появлении истинного гения в этом низменном мире можно узнать по тому, как дружно в…"-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick
"Первый роман всегда выдаёт честолюбие "хорошего ученика". Одни гении могут позволить себе быть двоечниками. И, конечно, требуется долгое время, чтобы постичь тайну "свободного дыхания" текста, а для …"-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick
14. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more
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15. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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16. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
By: Joshua Ferris
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Awa… read more
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17. Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.16
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an … read more
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"Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it"-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
18. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- poetry
- history
- biography
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
19. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- literature
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
20. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- history
- biography
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
21. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
22. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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23. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
24. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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- poetry
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
25. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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26. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
27. Bestiary
By: K-Ming Chang
3.44
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more
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"It was a relief to love something already dead."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
28. Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
By: Emma Smith
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside the rosy nostalgic glow for child… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- history
29. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
By: Merve Emre
3.25
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daught… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Bri…"-Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
30. Orchid Summer: In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
By: Jon Dunn
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embr… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
By: Jenny Uglow
4.24
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglo… read more
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- poetry
- art
- history
- biography
- literature
- animals
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- victorian
- nonfiction
