Sell Us the Rope
By: Stephen May
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor a…
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1. Reservoir 13
By: Jon McGregor
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more
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- fiction
2. The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers, #10)
By: Alan Furst
4.37
Format: None pages,
An Autumn Evening In 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he wil… read more
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3. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- fiction
4. The Night Guest
By: Fiona McFarlane
4.28
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowe… read more
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5. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
6. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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- russia
- fiction
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7. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
8. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
9. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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10. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
11. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- fiction
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
12. Light Perpetual
By: Francis Spufford
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed and award‑winning author of Golden Hill, an “extraordinary…symphonic…… read more
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- fiction
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13. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more
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14. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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15. On Java Road
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more
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16. The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France
By: Daniel de Visé
4.36
Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition
“Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This i… read more
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17. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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- historical
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18. Sell Us the Rope
By: Stephen May
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor a… read more
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- historical
- russia
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- historical fiction
19. Edith and Kim
By: Charlotte Philby
3.59
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The new, literary novel from Charlotte Philby To betray, you must first belong… In June… read more
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20. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
21. This Other Island
By: Steffanie Edward
3.90
Format: 309 pages, ebook
Then before I could ask any more questions, I was off, on my way to England, lost on a ship with ot… read more
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