Background for Love
By: Helen Wolff
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the …
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1. Der Richter und sein Henker
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis
3.70
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
«Dicevi che è da stupidi compiere un delitto, perché non è possibile muovere gli uomini come figure… read more
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- german literature
2. The Witches of Eastwick (Eastwick #1)
By: John Updike
4.29
Format: None pages,
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers ha… read more
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3. The Year of the Hare
By: Arto Paasilinna
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment on lovely sunny evening. As they drive thr… read more
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5. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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6. Madame le Commissaire und der verschwundene Engländer (Isabelle Bonnet, #1)
By: Pierre Martin
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Isabelle Bonnet, hochdekorierte Leiterin einer geheimen Spezialeinheit in Paris, ware bei einem Spr… read more
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7. Altes Land
By: Dörte Hansen
4.20
Format: None pages,
Zwei Frauen, ein altes Haus und eine Art von Familie Das ,,Polackenkind" ist die funfjahrige Vera a… read more
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8. Gilded Needles
By: Michael McDowell
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunke… read more
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9. Piccoli suicidi tra amici
By: Arto Paasilinna , Diego Marani , Nicola Rainò , None
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Ci sono momenti in cui i ripetuti insuccessi, un matrimonio a rotoli, lo stress, la solitudine semb… read more
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10. Winter (Seasonal, #2)
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more
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"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
11. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
12. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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13. 22 Bahnen
By: Caroline Wahl
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more
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- germany
14. Das Café ohne Namen
By: Robert Seethaler
3.68
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Ein Café und seine Menschen. Ein Mann, der seiner Sehnsucht folgt. Robert Seethalers neuer Roman. … read more
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15. Tangerinn
By: Emanuela Anechoum
3.92
Format: 245 pages, ebook
Il romanzo di una generazione che sa di dover partire ignorando la destinazione. In un mondo govern… read more
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16. Kummer aller Art
By: Mariana Leky
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa, … read more
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17. Zur See
By: Dörte Hansen
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Die Fähre braucht vom Festland eine Stunde auf die kleine Nordseeinsel, manchmal länger, je nach We… read more
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"Der Glaube ist ein krankes Kind, die Liebe ist ein Biest. Die Hoffnung ist nicht tot zu kriegen. Die Sehnsucht auch nicht, jedenfalls nicht ganz."-Dörte Hansen, Zur See
18. The Gentleman From Peru
By: André Aciman
3.56
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more
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19. Gittersee
By: Charlotte Gneuß
3.89
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Jürgen Ponto-Preis 2023 1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, … read more
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"Ein älterer Mann stand um die Ecke und rauchte. Er zwinkerte mir zu. Sie haben da was am Auge, rief ich ihm zu, so Zuckungen, würd ich behandeln lassen."-Charlotte Gneuß, Gittersee
20. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)
By: S.J. Bennett
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more
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21. Februar 33: Der Winter der Literatur
By: Uwe Wittstock
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Es ging rasend schnell. Der Februar 1933 war der Monat, in dem sich auch für die Schriftsteller in … read more
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22. An Evening With Claire
By: Gaito Gazdanov
3.92
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
This work, written with the simple lyricism and psychological acuity of the early Tolstoy and Bunin… read more
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"Но во всякой любви есть печаль, - вспоминал я, - печаль завершения и приближения смерти любви, если она бывает счастливой, и печаль невозможности и потери того, что нам никогда не принадлежало, - есл…"-Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening With Claire
"Если ты останешься жив после того, как кончится вся эта резня, ты прочтешь в специальных книгах подробное изложение героического поражения белых и позорно-случайной победы красных - если книга будет …"-Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening With Claire
"Никогда не становись убежденным человеком, не делай выводов, не рассуждай и старайся быть как можно более простым. И помни, что самое большое счастье на земле - это думать, что ты хоть что-нибудь пон…"-Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening With Claire
"Кроме того, мою внутреннюю жизнь я любил больше, чем другие. Я замечал вообще, что мое внимание бывало гораздо чаще привлекаемо предметами, которые не должны были бы меня затрагивать, и оставалось ра…"-Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening With Claire
23. Marseille 1940: Die große Flucht der Literatur (German Edition)
By: Uwe Wittstock
4.53
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Fra… read more
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24. The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)
By: Mai Mochizuki
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of c… read more
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25. Errore 404
By: Sacha Naspini
2.70
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
E se il futuro decidesse il tuo passato? E se il passato fosse solo una delle innumerevoli ipotesi?… read more
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26. Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses: Chronik eines Gefühls 1929–1939
By: Florian Illies
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In einem virtuosen Epochengemälde erweckt Florian Illies die dreißiger Jahre, dieses Jahrzehnt bers… read more
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27. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
28. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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29. Die schönste Version
By: Ruth-Maria Thomas
4.41
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more
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30. Background for Love
By: Helen Wolff
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the … read more
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31. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
