The Adulterants
By: Joe Dunthorne
3.40
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated g…
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1. Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
3.79
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest a… read more
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"Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth."-Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3)
2. Beatlebone
By: Kevin Barry
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A searing, surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literatur… read more
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3. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
4. Voyage in the Dark
By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier
3.78
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more
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"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
5. The Natural Way of Things
By: None
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the… read more
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6. Our Endless Numbered Days
By: Claire Fuller
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in … read more
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7. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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8. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
By: Joshua Ferris
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Awa… read more
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9. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
10. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
11. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
12. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
13. The Mess We’re In
By: Annie Macmanus
3.40
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more
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14. Red Pill
By: Hari Kunzru
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more
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"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
15. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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16. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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17. They Fell Like Stars from the Sky & Other Stories
By: Sheikha Helawy
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a collection of eighteen short stories celeb… read more
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18. Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
By: Matt Rowland Hill
4.21
Format: 302 pages, ebook
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesm… read more
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19. The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
By: Kirsty Logan
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and moth… read more
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20. Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
By: Philippa Snow
4.38
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainme… read more
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21. The Adulterants
By: Joe Dunthorne
3.40
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated g… read more
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