Like This Afternoon Forever
By: Jaime Manrique
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian governm…
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1. The Little Friend
By: Donna Tartt
3.47
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
2. La vorágine
By: José Eustasio Rivera , Montserrat Ordóñez
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sin duda, la eleccion y desarrollo del personaje-narrador de La voraginehan sido la base del exito … read more
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- fiction
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more
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4. Inés of My Soul
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard wor… read more
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5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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6. Daughter of Fortune
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
7. In the Beginning Was the Sea
By: Frank Wynne , Tomás González
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young intellectuals J. and Elena leave behind their comfortable lives, the parties and the mone… read more
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8. Small Wonder
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami… read more
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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to …"-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
9. Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with… read more
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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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11. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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12. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
13. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
14. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
15. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
16. 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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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical 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
17. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
19. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Beauty of Your Face
By: Sahar Mustafah
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- religion
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face
21. Stolen
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen
22. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- literary fiction
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
23. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
By: Lex Croucher
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
24. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
25. Conventionally Yours (True Colors, #1)
By: Annabeth Albert
3.85
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
When two "big name fans" go head-to-head at a convention, love isn't the only thing at stake. Ch… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
"I did not want to spend days on end in a car with someone who made no secret of not liking me, even though he got along with almost everyone else. Something about the two of us was like mixing Diet C…"-Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours (True Colors, #1)
"You can't kill me," I said. "You don't have the strength." "In reality, I was already dead. My fate had been sealed by my own stupidity, but I wasn't going down with a whimper. No, the last of my lif…"-Annabeth Albert, Conventionally Yours (True Colors, #1)
26. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
27. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
28. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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- historical
29. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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- fiction
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
30. Like This Afternoon Forever
By: Jaime Manrique
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian governm… read more
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- literary fiction
- gay
- lgbt
- historical
- politics
- religion
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
