Minor Monuments
By: Ian Maleney
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Minor Monuments is a collection of essays about family, memory, and music. Mostly set in the rural …
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Self-Help
By: Lorrie Moore
4.13
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs —and a master of contemporary American… read more
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"Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"You will forget whoever it was that said never trust a thought doesn't come while walking. But clutch at it. Apartments can shrink inward like drying ponds."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
3. The Casual Vacancy
By: J.K. Rowling
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pa… read more
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4. The Wonder
By: Emma Donoghue
3.64
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe wh… read more
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- ireland
"Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?"-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
"Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live."-Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
5. 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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"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
6. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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7. Amongst Women
By: John McGahern
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more
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8. Butterflies in November
By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir , Brian FitzGibbon
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, a young woman yearns for a … read more
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9. The Complete Poems
By: William Blake , Alicia Suskin Ostriker
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and … read more
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10. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
11. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
12. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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- nonfiction
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
13. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
14. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
15. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
16. Constellations
By: Sinéad Gleeson
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- essays
"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
17. The Fire Starters
By: Jan Carson
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter might not be as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agne… read more
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- irish literature
18. The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
By: Róisín Kiberd
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
'Unsettling, illuminating, and perversely fun - by a writer of extraordinary style and intellectual… read more
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- irish literature
- essays
19. The Historians: Poems
By: Eavan Boland
4.09
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2020 Costa Poetry Award A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most mast… read more
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- ireland
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20. The Grass Ceiling
By: Eimear Ryan
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is it like to be female in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play with the boys, more pe… read more
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21. Minor Monuments
By: Ian Maleney
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Minor Monuments is a collection of essays about family, memory, and music. Mostly set in the rural … read more
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