People Want to Live
By: Farah Ali
3.74
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandon…
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1. Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood
By: Anthony Mascarenhas
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood is a book written by journalist Anthony Mascarenhas. The book chronic… read more
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- pakistan
2. A Man of the People
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart," this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 an… read more
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- fiction
3. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
By: Rafia Zakaria
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For … read more
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- pakistan
4. An Unnecessary Woman
By: Rabih Alameddine
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of Beirut's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The … read more
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5. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
6. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- asia
- fiction
- audiobook
8. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
9. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
10. The Liberators
By: E.J. Koh
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more
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- audiobook
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Paper Names
By: Susie Luo
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Repetition. That was my father’s philosophy on learning. It applied not only to the piano, but my studies too. Before every test, he made me write out every single word from the textbook chapter, twi…"-Susie Luo, Paper Names
13. Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more
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- audiobook
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"She vomited casually into the toilet…"-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
14. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. Bad Fruit
By: Ella King
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Celeste Ng, Bad Fruit is an unforgettable portrayal of a toxic moth… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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- audiobook
17. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
By: Elif Shafak
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
18. Abigail
By: Magda Szabó
4.33
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of … read more
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- fiction
19. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
20. Three Japanese Short Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.28
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
21. The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
22. Counterweight
By: Djuna
3.06
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
23. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
24. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
25. Can't We Be Friends
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
26. Pay As You Go
By: Eskor David Johnson
4.07
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
27. Havana Year Zero
By: Karla Suárez
3.63
Format: 256 pages, None
It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
30. People Want to Live
By: Farah Ali
3.74
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandon… read more
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- asia
- pakistan
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
