The Unknowns
By: Shirley-Anne McMillan
3.68
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Tilly is perched at the top of Belfast's largest crane. She likes to climb up high at night in orde…
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1. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Linh Duong
4.13
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
A warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging, infused with humour, from the bestselling… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"Writing is a journey."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Time is something we don't have."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Nobody tells anybody everything."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Life wasn't always about deserve."-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
2. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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- fiction
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
3. Every Exquisite Thing
By: Matthew Quick
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook comes a heartfelt and rebellious novel i… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did."-Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing
"It felt like so many years' worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once—maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn't run away to save themselves but sprinted rig…"-Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing
"There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incr…"-Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing
"It felt like so many years' worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once—maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn't run away to save themselves but sprinted rig…"-Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing
4. The Door That Led to Where
By: Sally Gardner
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when… read more
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- young adult
5. The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play… read more
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- fiction
6. More Than We Can Tell
By: Brigid Kemmerer
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of Letters to the Lostcomes a heart-wrenching story of two teens with big secrets a… read more
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7. Counting Stars
By: Keris Stainton
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Big city, big dreams, no money, no problem... Six 'friends', one flat, big dreams... what could go … read more
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8. Shuggie Bain
By: Douglas Stuart
4.31
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more
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- fiction
"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
9. She and I
By: Hannah King
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Best friends share everything. But murder is different. Isn’t it? Keeley and Jude are closer tha… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
10. All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.23
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
11. How to Kill Men and Get Away with It
By: Katy Brent
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. He was following me. That guy from the nightclub w… read more
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- fiction
"Maybe disemboweling a sex offender is what I need to cure this particular hangover."-Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It
"I absolutely refuse to be around anyone who thinks they're better than me because a) who has the time to waste hanging out with anyone you just will never get along with and b) no one is better than …"-Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away with It
12. The Familiars
By: Stacey Halls
3.88
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more
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- fiction
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Respect is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
13. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
By: Laura Pearson
4.03
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more
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- fiction
14. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- fiction
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
15. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- fiction
16. Great Circle
By: Maggie Shipstead
4.11
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more
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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
17. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
18. How to Make Friends with the Dark
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more
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- young adult
"Always the universe, against you."-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark
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. Breathless
By: Jennifer Niven
3.78
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is making plans: college in t… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"But all the scary stuff doesn't really compare to getting lost in your own mind."-Jennifer Niven, Breathless
"Just like I will decide my life. No more waiting for other people to decide things for me. I'm writing it right now."-Jennifer Niven, Breathless
"(...) when life suddenly changes and you’re left picking up the pieces. She says it’s actually how you pick up the pieces that defines you."-Jennifer Niven, Breathless
"There’s this feeling you get when you write a really good, true sentence or paragraph or scene, and it makes you feel invincible, as if you can do anything. It feels like a superpower, and in that mo…"-Jennifer Niven, Breathless
21. In the Garden of Spite
By: Camilla Bruce
3.89
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Belle Sorensen loves men. She loves them to death . . . Early in life Belle Sorensen discovers … read more
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- fiction
"I made a silent pact with the house in those nights, that beautiful old whorehouse with suicide in its walls, as damaged and bruised as myself. If it kept me, I would keep it, and we would be like si…"-Camilla Bruce, In the Garden of Spite
22. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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- fiction
23. The Lighthouse Witches
By: C.J. Cooke
3.94
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's stil… read more
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"She still doesn’t believe in magic. It’s a technology, she’s decided. Just one that she doesn’t understand yet."-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches
"... the sky like polished silver, the ocean sinewy and muscular, crackling as it reached the stones at the edge of the causeway."-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches
"Most people's pasts can be viewed like cleaved water left in the wake of a boat. Hers? It's a tangled weave of spider webs and nightmares, never to make sense."-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches
"I went outside, taking in the sight of the grey ocean swaying beyond the cliffs, a mackerel sky troubled by seabirds swooping and screaming beneath the clap of the waves."-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches
24. The Room in the Attic
By: Louise Douglas
4.32
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
A child who does not know her name… In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, wh… read more
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- fiction
25. Boys Don't Cry
By: Fíona Scarlett
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
26. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
27. In at the Deep End
By: Kate Davies
3.50
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones–like twenty-something who discovers tha… read more
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- fiction
28. The Fire Starters
By: Jan Carson
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter might not be as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agne… read more
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- fiction
29. Spirited
By: Julie Cohen
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A moving and gripping story about three women who keep unspeakable truths, from the Richard & Judy … read more
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- fiction
30. Version Zero
By: David Yoon
3.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the brilliant mind of New York Times best-selling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and… read more
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- young adult
31. The Unknowns
By: Shirley-Anne McMillan
3.68
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Tilly is perched at the top of Belfast's largest crane. She likes to climb up high at night in orde… read more
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- young adult
