The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea (Theseus, #1-2)
By: Mary Renault
4.30
Format: 531 pages, Hardcover
This is two books in one, The King Must Die & The Bull from the Sea Mary Renault retells the myth o…
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1. The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
By: Edmund de Waal
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned li… read more
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- historical
"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?"-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
2. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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- literature
- classics
- historical fiction
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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- literature
- classics
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
4. Blindman's Bluff (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #18)
By: Faye Kellerman
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. Someo… read more
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- fiction
5. Soldados de Salamina
By: Javier Cercas
3.58
Format: 24 pages,
Un joven periodista topa por casualidad con una historia fascinante, y muy significativa, de la Gue… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. A High Wind in Jamaica
By: Francine Prose , Richard Hughes
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in E… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
By: T.H. White
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
8. The Last Child
By: John Hart
4.82
Format: None pages,
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sist… read more
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- fiction
9. Thirst for Love
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more
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10. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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11. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
12. The Death of King Arthur
By: Peter Ackroyd
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our tim… read more
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13. A Spartan Love (Spartan Love #1) (Apollo's Men #2)
By: Kayla Jameth
4.50
Format: 158 pages, ebook
Alone, Andreas toils on a remote farmstead for a Spartan overlord. When a kryptes enters his world,… read more
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14. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Area X--a remote and lush terrain--has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nat… read more
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15. The Boy Who Drew Monsters
By: Keith Donohue
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Stolen Childcomes a hypnotic literary horror novel… read more
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16. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
17. Lavinia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.66
Format: 384 pages,
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. In … read more
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18. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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19. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
20. In the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more
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21. Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow, #1)
By: Jo Nesbø , Neil Smith
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a fast, tight, darkly lyrical s… read more
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22. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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- literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
24. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
25. Feria
By: Ana Iris Simón
3.55
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Ana Iris creció escuchando a sus abuelos el relato de dos mundos que se desvanecen. Unos, feriantes… read more
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"La madre está siempre condenada al reproche porque es el amor primero, el amor puro y el dolor sobrevenido de no poder ser el otro, de no poder ser uno con el otro, imposible siempre de satisfacer. L…"-Ana Iris Simón, Feria
"Una tarde, volviendo del Carrefour con una bolsa de plástico en una mano, porque siempre se me olvida llevar las de tela, y las llaves en la otra, entendí, pensando en Paris, que lo del día que conoc…"-Ana Iris Simón, Feria
"Cuando Javi fue creciendo yo empecé a pensar de manera recurrente dos cosas, como cuando lo conocí en el hospital. La primera en interrogativo: en qué se convierten los hermanos cuando crecen, cuan…"-Ana Iris Simón, Feria
"Los fines de semana lo raptaba de la cuna, que estaba en la habitación de la Ana Mari y de mi padre, y me lo bajaba al comedor para ponerlo en el Maxi-Cosi y mirarlo dormir y preguntarme cómo podía u…"-Ana Iris Simón, Feria
26. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
27. Fragments (Alabaster Penitentiary #4)
By: Nyla K.
4.36
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
Survival is all that matters in here. Still, it gets tricky when evil lurks around every corner, w… read more
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28. Mothers' Instinct
By: Barbara Abel
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Soon to be a major US motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Mothers' Instinct… read more
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- fiction
"And then someone else would come out with another, even more appalling story: quick, quick, let’s hear about another misfortune that happened to someone else, something that could have happened to us…"-Barbara Abel, Mothers' Instinct
"Don’t think. Sweep away the words, ideas, images swirling endlessly in the infernal dance of pitiless affliction. Push back the realization of an unspeakable truth for another second. Don’t speak. Do…"-Barbara Abel, Mothers' Instinct
"The wait went on, the seconds ticking away in a tangle of emotions, desperate hope giving way to pitiless anguish. The certainty of being safe from misfortune shatters inexorably, like a splinter bei…"-Barbara Abel, Mothers' Instinct
29. A Not So Typical Love
By: Tristen Rowen
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Jordan and Jamie’s love is anything but typical. Jordan Cameron is not like most nineteen year … read more
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30. Forbidden (The Wrong Alpha, #5)
By: Alessandra Hazard
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
Forced to marry an alpha three times his age after his first heat, Lucien no longer believes in hap… read more
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- fantasy
31. The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea (Theseus, #1-2)
By: Mary Renault
4.30
Format: 531 pages, Hardcover
This is two books in one, The King Must Die & The Bull from the Sea Mary Renault retells the myth o… read more
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