You Can't Go Home Again
By: Sarvat Hasin
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Linked stories draw a powerful portrait of young Pakistan, at home and in the world A group of t…
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1. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
2. The Reader
By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway
3.78
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more
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- fiction
"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
3. This House of Clay and Water
By: Faiqa Mansab
3.91
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Set in Lahore, This House of Clay and Water explores the lives of two women. Nida, intelligent and … read more
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- pakistan
- fiction
- contemporary
"Our own hearts judged us as sinners before anyone else did."-Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water
"To destroy the self , mustn't one first determine the self."-Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water
"What was more tragic, the lives people lived, or the deaths they died?"-Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water
"It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded."-Faiqa Mansab, This House of Clay and Water
4. The Complete Maus
By: Art Spiegelman
4.57
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more
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"Ingen är normal."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"He’s more attached to things than people."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa
4.26
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more
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"To each his own way of calming down."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
6. The Rose & the Dagger (The Wrath & the Dawn, #2)
By: Renée Ahdieh
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The darker the sky, the brighter the stars. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from … read more
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- fiction
7. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
8. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Tuesdays with Morrie
By: Mitch Albom , None
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who under… read more
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10. The Broken Wings
By: Kahlil Gibran , None
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental … read more
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- fiction
11. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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12. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
13. On Beauty
By: Zadie Smith
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more
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14. Let it Snow
By: John Green , Maureen Johnson , Lauren Myracle
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition for The New York Timesbestseller! Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful p… read more
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15. The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
By: Renée Ahdieh
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new … read more
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16. Galatea
By: Madeline Miller
4.09
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his master… read more
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18. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
By: Eric LaRocca
2.96
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
20. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
21. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
By: Philip Pullman
4.15
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. … read more
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- fiction
"You going to be a scientist when you grow up?"-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
22. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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- fiction
"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
23. Birthday Girl
By: Haruki Murakami
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put …"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really…"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
24. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
25. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- pakistan
- contemporary
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
26. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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- fiction
"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
27. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
28. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
30. Kaikeyi
By: Vaishnavi Patel
4.19
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
“I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good … read more
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- fiction
"Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good."-Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi
31. You Can't Go Home Again
By: Sarvat Hasin
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Linked stories draw a powerful portrait of young Pakistan, at home and in the world A group of t… read more
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- pakistan
- fiction
- contemporary
