No Country for Young Men
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.31
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of four generations of two Irish families and their attempts to come to terms with …
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1. Pascali's Island
By: Barry Unsworth
3.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Em… read more
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2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. Beside the Ocean of Time
By: George Mackay Brown
4.17
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
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4. My Lover's Lover
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Lily slips on the sidewalk outside a London gallery and literally falls at the feet of a stran… read more
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- literary fiction
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5. Juno and the Paycock
By: Seán O'Casey
3.23
Format: 403 pages,
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more
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- ireland
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6. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- fiction
7. The Plot Against America
By: Philip Roth
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more
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8. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
By: Kate Summerscale
4.17
Format: None pages,
The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In… read more
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9. The Light of Day
By: Graham Swift
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detec… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. The Butcher Boy
By: Patrick McCabe
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more
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- ireland
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11. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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13. Tin Man
By: Sarah Winman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more
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14. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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15. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
By: Karen Joy Fowler
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American f… read more
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16. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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17. Reef
By: Romesh Gunesekera
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reef is the elegant and moving story of Triton, a talented young chef so committed to pleasing his … read more
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18. Europa
By: Tim Parks
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus from Milan to Strasbourg, taking s… read more
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19. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
20. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- ireland
- fiction
21. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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- fiction
"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
22. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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- fiction
"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
23. The Second Sleep
By: Robert Harris
3.49
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more
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24. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
25. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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- fiction
"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
26. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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- ireland
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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
27. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
28. The Mars Room
By: Rachel Kushner
3.44
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Corr… read more
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- fiction
"We loved life more than the future."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"Where people are gone the night falls upward, black and unmanned."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would …"-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
29. Shadowplay
By: Joseph O'Connor
3.86
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that… read more
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- ireland
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"Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it."-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"You write for the winds, uncorrupted by hope and untouched by hope's sibling, despair. [Bram Stoker, to Walt Whitman]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
30. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- ireland
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31. No Country for Young Men
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.31
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of four generations of two Irish families and their attempts to come to terms with … read more
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