Sylvia
By: Maithreyi Karnoor
3.67
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Longing to connect to his ancestral roots, Cajetan Pereira has taken up residence near one of the r…
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1. A Separation
By: Katie Kitamura
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A yo… read more
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2. Sightseeing
By: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old T… read more
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3. 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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4. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
By: Patrícia Melo
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
6. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
7. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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8. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
9. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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10. The North Light
By: Hideo Yokoyama
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a pri… read more
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11. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
12. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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13. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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14. Strange Beasts of China
By: Yan Ge
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more
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"All we have are stories."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
15. Nada
By: Hanna Stoltenberg
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Hele livet har Karin flyktet fra alt og alle som vil eie henne. Hun har en datter hun sjelden konta… read more
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16. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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- novels
17. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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- fiction
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
18. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
19. The Medici Murders
By: David Hewson
3.83
Format: 288 pages, ebook
When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Ven… read more
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20. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
21. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
22. Ghost Cities
By: Siang Lu
3.91
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narrative… read more
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23. Tierra fresca de su tumba
By: Giovanna Rivero
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more
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"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba
24. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … 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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- india
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26. 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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27. Solo Dance
By: Kotomi Li
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An important queer voice from East Asia’s millennial generation Cho Norie, twenty-seven and orig… read more
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- fiction
"Am I afraid of something? If I had pursued that thought, I would have easily come to a conclusion. No one reads my diary, so I don't have to worry about what anyone will think. But stories are differ…"-Kotomi Li, Solo Dance
28. Sylvia
By: Maithreyi Karnoor
3.67
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Longing to connect to his ancestral roots, Cajetan Pereira has taken up residence near one of the r… read more
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29. Old Romantics
By: Maggie Armstrong
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A few years ago my husband recommended me for a job in his company, and I thought it would be fun,… read more
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30. No One Dies Yet
By: Kobby Ben Ben
3.67
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giv… read more
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31. No Funeral for Nazia
By: Taha Kehar
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In he… read more
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