A Celibate Season
By: Carol Shields
3.56
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which…
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1. Harriet Said...
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.34
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown northern holiday resort. A girl returns f… read more
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- literary fiction
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2. Night Waking
By: Sarah Moss
3.90
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-… read more
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"Would I do it again, understanding as I do now and didn’t then, that failure at motherhood is for life and beyond, that everything that happens to my children and my children’s children is my fault? …"-Sarah Moss, Night Waking
3. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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4. Scissors, Paper, Stone
By: Elizabeth Day
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Charles Redfern is in a coma. As he lies motionless in hospital, his wife, Anne, and daughter, Char… read more
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- fiction
5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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6. Joustava mieli - Vapaudu stressin, uupumuksen ja masennuksen ylivallasta
By: Arto Pietikäinen
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
- Tunnista omat tapasi reagoida stressiin ja hyodylliset stressinhallintakeinot. - Vapaudu murehtim… read more
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7. The Retreat
By: David Bergen
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling novelist David Bergen follows his Scotiabank Giller Prize--winning The Time in Between … read more
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8. The Party
By: Elizabeth Day
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart … read more
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9. The Story of a Marriage
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and asto… read more
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10. Seating Arrangements
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Hardcover
Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. N… read more
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11. The White Family
By: Maggie Gee
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
"Outstanding . . . tender, sexy and alarming."--Jim Crace When Alfred White, patriarch of the White… read more
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12. Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
By: Kyo Maclear
4.50
Format: None pages,
A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exube… read more
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13. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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14. Rósa & Björk (Hildur, #2)
By: Satu Rämö
3.63
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Kun vallanhimo iskee, tulee ruumiita! Rósa & Björk on toinen osa nordic noirille uskollista Hild… read more
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15. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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16. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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17. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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18. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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19. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
20. Skymning 41 : roman från en krigstid
By: Kjell Westö
3.64
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
Kjell Westös nya roman börjar i slutet av januari 1940. Då har kriget som ska kallas vinterkriget p… read more
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21. Three Hours
By: Rosamund Lupton
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning's lessons, a dress rehearsal of Ma… read more
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22. The Fell
By: Sarah Moss
3.63
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more
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"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."-Sarah Moss, The Fell
23. Malma station
By: Alex Schulman
3.64
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Alex Schulmans nya roman utspelar sig på ett tåg. Fem personer är på resa genom Sverige: ett gift p… read more
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24. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
25. The Weekend
By: Charlotte Wood
3.38
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more
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"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend
26. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
By: Hannah Pick-Goslar
4.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more
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27. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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28. Want
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely p… read more
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"I wonder if any family, after too long trying and failing to love another, can hear one another's words beyond all the ways that they fall short."-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
"At least with hate you know what you are getting. Love like that, you forget sometimes it's not love, that it's empty, all words and performance, and still sometimes you grab at it, thinking maybe it…"-Lynn Steger Strong, Want
29. Neiti Steinin keittäjätär
By: Leena Parkkinen
3.94
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Huikaiseva historiallinen romaani rikoksesta joka erottaa siskokset, rakkaudesta joka asettaa ihmis… read more
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30. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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31. A Celibate Season
By: Carol Shields
3.56
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which… read more
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