Celia, Misoka, I
By: Xue Yiwei
3.36
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadia…
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1. Three Strong Women
By: Marie NDiaye , John Fletcher
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye c… read more
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2. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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3. Fish in Exile
By: Vi Khi Nao
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Praise for Vi Khi Nao: "Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to … read more
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4. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five bril… read more
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5. Grendel's Game (Walther Ekman #1)
By: Erik Mauritzson
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Southwestern Sweden is the site of an increasingly frantic hunt for Grendel, a psychopathic murdere… read more
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6. Where Jasmine Blooms
By: None
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
To the Mansours, an Arab American family living in Seattle, love knows no borders. But despite our … read more
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7. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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10. A Town Called Solace
By: Mary Lawson
4.02
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more
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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace
11. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
By: Chris Hadfield
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more
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12. The Downloaded
By: Robert J. Sawyer
3.62
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their m… read more
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13. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
14. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
15. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
16. The Deep Sky
By: Yume Kitasei
3.71
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more
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"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky
17. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
By: Eddie Robson
3.91
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more
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"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
18. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
19. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
20. Djinn City
By: Saad Z. Hossain
3.71
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third worl… read more
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21. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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- canada
22. The Orchard
By: Peter Heller
4.14
Format: 229 pages, ebook
From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The River, the story of a young girl coming of age… read more
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23. The Shame
By: Makenna Goodman
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down… read more
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24. Agave Blues
By: Ruthie Marlenée
3.63
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Mix together a little family, drama, ghosts, and tequila, and you get a hell of a cocktail! Some… read more
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25. The Earthspinner
By: Anuradha Roy
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Liv… read more
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26. Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four se… read more
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"A person who is everyone is no one, empty. A person who is someone can always become someone else."-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"Only by forgetting that one is writing can one write and give an external expression to the internal thought without it being marked or prevented by shame, as all other external expressions are."-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"few things are a more satisfying substitute for the presence of other people than writing, which at the same time provides an excuse for one's antisocial behaviour, for everyone knows that someone wh…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"I asked whether beauty was important to her. She said she had been trained to be suspicious of beauty, to be on guard against it. So am I, it is a tenet of our culture that beauty, at least the obvio…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
27. Black Imagination
By: Natasha Marin
4.34
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
"Close your eyes—make the white gaze disappear." What is it like to be black and joyful, without su… read more
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28. Cyber Mage
By: Saad Z. Hossain
3.89
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089. A city notorious for its extreme population density has found… read more
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29. The Only Living Girl on Earth
By: Charles Yu
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more
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30. Celia, Misoka, I
By: Xue Yiwei
3.36
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadia… read more
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- china
- fiction
- canada
31. I Am God
By: Giacomo Sartori
3.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I am God is t… read more
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