The Boat
By: Nam Le
4.13
Format: 49 pages, Interactive Graphic Novel
The title story is set in Vietnam, in a fishing trawler crowded with refugees, where a young woman'…
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1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa
4.26
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more
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- comics
"To each his own way of calming down."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
2. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
By: Hiromu Arakawa , Akira Watanabe
4.53
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime! In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams."-Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
"A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything."-Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
"Life will come to an end, a return to dust from which we came... The spirit becomes memories living in the minds of people."-Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
"Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful."-Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
3. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
4. Anya's Ghost
By: Vera Brosgol
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part. Of all t… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
"Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
5. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
6. A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil, #2)
By: Soman Chainani
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie a… read more
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- fiction
7. Home (Binti, #2)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.87
Format: 260 pages, ebook
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared… read more
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- fiction
8. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1)
By: Matthew Wilson , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the m… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- fiction
9. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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- fiction
10. Girls of Paper and Fire
By: Natasha Ngan
3.64
Format: None pages,
"Inspired by Asian mythology, it follows Lei, a girl who is taken from her remote village to serve … read more
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- fiction
11. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more
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- fiction
"My sister Susan,"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
12. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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13. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
14. A Different Pond
By: Bao Phi , Thi Bui
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and s… read more
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15. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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16. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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17. His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
By: Philip Pullman , Peter Bailey
3.98
Format: 304 pages,
Die Waise Lyra, Hauptfigur in >>Der Goldene Kompass", lebt in einer Parallelwelt - der unseren ganz… read more
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18. Inside Out & Back Again
By: Thanhhà Lại
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more
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19. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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20. Radio Silence
By: Alice Oseman
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine wit… read more
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21. The Magic Fish
By: Trung Le Nguyen
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more
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- comics
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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
22. The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
By: F.C. Yee
4.44
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
F. C. Yee’s The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom–born Avatar. The … read more
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- fiction
"Preparedness carries the day."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"Both sides' was a rhetorical weapon used by hypocrites and the ignorant."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
"All of our actions have an impact. Each decision we make ripples into the future. And we alter our landscapes according to our needs."-F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1)
23. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
By: Nghi Vo
4.18
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
24. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
25. Drawn Together
By: Minh Lê
4.42
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustr… read more
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- fiction
26. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
27. Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
By: Elizabeth Lim
4.20
Format: 454 pages, ebook
A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... S… read more
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- fiction
"Let’s play a game,"-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
"Curiosity was my greatest weakness."-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
"Fear is just a game. You win by playing."-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
"You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart."-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
28. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
By: Roseanne A. Brown
3.94
Format: 466 pages, Hardcover
For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life … read more
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- fiction
"This is my mind. I am the strongest person here."-Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
"The past devours those naive enough to forget it."-Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
"Slaves deserve to be remembered just as much as queens."-Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
"Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be kind in a world as cruel as ours."-Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
29. The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
4.04
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
30. The Boat
By: Nam Le
4.13
Format: 49 pages, Interactive Graphic Novel
The title story is set in Vietnam, in a fishing trawler crowded with refugees, where a young woman'… read more
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