A Pail of Oysters
By: Vern Sneider
4.07
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. Let the Great World Spin
By: Colum McCann
4.35
Format: None pages,
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring … read more
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4. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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6. The Man with the Compound Eyes
By: Wu Ming-Yi , Darryl Sterk
3.89
Format: 202 pages, ebook
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice … read more
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7. On Beauty
By: Zadie Smith
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more
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8. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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9. Green Island
By: Shawna Yang Ryan
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over … read more
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10. Ghost Month (A Taipei Night Market #1)
By: Ed Lin
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
August is Ghost Month in Taiwan-a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, commem… read more
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11. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.45
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by… read more
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"People have the right to fall in love, but not the right to be loved."-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
"Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy."-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
"He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and…"-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
"I really just couldn’t think of anything. Absolutely nothing that I wanted to do. There were plenty of things that I don’t want to do. Like torment animals. Or be jealous of other people’s happiness.…"-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
14. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
15. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
16. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
17. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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18. The Stolen Bicycle
By: Wu Ming-Yi
3.88
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer em… read more
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"The love of old things is a way of respecting time."-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
"Sometimes I think that in the end all art is selfish, that it won't necessarily change other people's minds-but whatever it changes, you yourself knows best."-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
"The moment a man traverses a mountain range on a bicycle, he is like the first Mongolian you ever lept onto a wild horse on the steppe -- a rearing, snorting, bucking creature no one had ever thought…"-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
19. Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
By: Vaudine England
3.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A timely, well-researched, and “ illuminating ” ( The New York Times Book Review ) new history of H… read more
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20. A Pail of Oysters
By: Vern Sneider
4.07
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Hunter School
By: Sakinu Ahronglong
3.64
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiograp… read more
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