Joanna
By: Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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1. Ulverton
By: Adam Thorpe
3.65
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book … read more
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- literary fiction
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2. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- fiction
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more
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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more
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- fiction
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
6. The Snow Goose
By: Paul Gallico
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set… read more
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- fiction
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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8. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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10. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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11. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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12. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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13. Ragtime
By: E.L. Doctorow
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tape… read more
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"It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."-E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
14. The Death of the Heart
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more
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15. A History of Loneliness
By: John Boyne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When h… read more
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16. Enduring Love
By: Ian McEwan
3.64
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"... her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
17. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
18. We Had to Remove This Post
By: Hanna Bervoets
2.93
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more
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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
19. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
20. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
21. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
22. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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23. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
24. Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
By: Jo Nesbø
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own… read more
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"Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better."-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herse…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we st…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
25. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
26. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
27. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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28. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- fiction
29. De eerlijke vinder
By: Lize Spit
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more
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30. 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
31. Joanna
By: Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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