I Saw the Dog
By: Alexandra Aikhenvald
3.62
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belo…
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1. After the Banquet
By: Yukio Mishima
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Reissued along side The Sound of the Waves plus three classics works by Junichiro Tanizaki. read more
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"Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done."-Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet
"Kazu, now that she thought of it, realized that for all her headstrong temperament, she had never loved a man younger than herself. A young man has such a surplus of spiritual and physical gifts that…"-Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
5. The Decay of the Angel
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the domina… read more
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6. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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7. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more
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8. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
By: Lady Sarashina , Ivan Morris
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In the mainstream of Japan's literary tradition, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreamsnot only reveals mu… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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10. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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- nonfiction
"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
11. The Temple of Dawn
By: Yukio Mishima , E. Dale Saunders , Cecilia Segawa Seigle
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is gr… read more
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12. The Bees
By: Laline Paull
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid's Talemeets The Hunger Gamesin this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest c… read more
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13. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
14. Runaway Horses
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns … read more
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15. Shipwrecks
By: Akira Yoshimura , Mark Ealey
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of J… read more
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16. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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17. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
18. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
19. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
20. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
21. 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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"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
22. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
23. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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24. Yesterday
By: Juan Emar
3.55
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course… read more
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25. Ti amo
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.86
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more
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26. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
27. The Forest Brims Over
By: Maru Ayase
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husban… read more
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28. She's on the Money
By: Victoria Devine
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The ultimate millennial money guide, from the creator of Australia’s #1 finance podcast. Through… read more
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- nonfiction
29. I Saw the Dog
By: Alexandra Aikhenvald
3.62
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belo… read more
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- linguistics
- nonfiction
30. Swanfolk
By: Kristín Ómarsdóttir
3.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Like a modern Midsummer Night’s Dream, an ethereal and haunting novel about a young spy who enchant… read more
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31. The Fear
By: Christiana Spens
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
A philosophical memoir about the deepest and most primal of human emotions, how it controls us all,… read more
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