Infinite Riches
By: Ben Okri
3.80
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
This is a startling novel about different kinds of riches and different forms of power. It opens an…
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1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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- magical realism
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- contemporary
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2. Burial Rites
By: Hannah Kent
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more
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- fiction
3. Strange Pilgrims
By: Gabriel García Márquez
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for … read more
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- literature
- magical realism
- fiction
4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more
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- literature
- fiction
5. How Late it Was, How Late
By: James Kelman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's … read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
6. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- literature
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
7. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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8. Autumn
By: Ali Smith
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more
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- literature
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- contemporary
9. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
10. Snow Falling on Cedars
By: David Guterson
3.91
Format: None pages,
Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken an… read more
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- novels
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11. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
12. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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- magical realism
- literature
- fiction
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- fantasy
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
13. 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
14. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more
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15. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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16. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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- nigeria
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
17. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
By: Ayi Kwei Armah
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward c… read more
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18. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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19. At Night All Blood is Black
By: David Diop
3.82
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more
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- fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
20. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
21. Infinite Riches
By: Ben Okri
3.80
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
This is a startling novel about different kinds of riches and different forms of power. It opens an… read more
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- magical realism
- nigeria
- novels
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- folklore
- fiction
- contemporary
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- fantasy
