The Way the Day Breaks
By: David Roberts
3.81
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
Set in Yorkshire in the late 1980s, The Way the Day Breaks is a novel about family, love and mental…
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1. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
2. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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- fiction
3. Shyness and Dignity
By: Sverre Lyngstad , Dag Solstad
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th annive… read more
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4. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
5. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
6. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
7. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
8. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
9. The Twilight Zone
By: Nona Fernández
4.20
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invad… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"No importa lo que ves, importa lo que crees que ves."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"Ser estúpido es una elección personal y no necesariamente hay que llevar uniforme para ejercer ese maligno talento."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"La empatía y la compasión son rasgos de lucidez, la posibilidad de ponerse en los zapatos del otro, de transmutar la piel y enmascararse con un rostro ajeno es un ejercicio de pura inteligencia."-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
"I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn’t true that criminals are masterminds. It …"-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone
10. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
11. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
12. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
13. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
14. The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
3.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
15. The Road to the City
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. Tuhkaan piirretty maa
By: Petra Rautiainen
3.62
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Inari, 1944. Olavi Heiskanen työskentelee saksalaisten johtamalla vankileirillä, jossa paitsi vangi… read more
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- fiction
18. Brian
By: Jeremy Cooper
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential wor… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
20. The Way the Day Breaks
By: David Roberts
3.81
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
Set in Yorkshire in the late 1980s, The Way the Day Breaks is a novel about family, love and mental… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
21. There's Nothing Wrong with Her
By: Kate Weinberg
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery.Vita… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
