Outer Sunset
By: Mark Ernest Pothier
3.94
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Jim Finley—a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco—ha…
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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
2. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars f… read more
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"[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That’s po…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecr…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
3. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more
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"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
4. When We Were Orphans
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
5. Shadows on the Rock
By: Willa Cather
4.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and … read more
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"The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
"The Law is to protect property, and it thinks too much of property. A couple of brass pots, an old saddle, are reckoned worth more than a poor man’s life."-Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
6. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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7. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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8. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
9. An American Tragedy
By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more
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10. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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11. The First Bad Man
By: Miranda July
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more
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12. Bonsai
By: Alejandro Zambra
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more
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13. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
By: David Talbot
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco… read more
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14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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15. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
16. A Killing on the Hill
By: Robert Dugoni
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest … read more
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17. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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18. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
19. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
20. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
21. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
22. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
23. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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24. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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25. My Year Abroad (Random House Large Print)
By: Chang-rae Lee
3.42
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative s… read more
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26. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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27. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
By: Héctor García
3.72
Format: 208 pages, None
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28. The Auburn Conference
By: Tom Piazza
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic yo… read more
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29. Outer Sunset
By: Mark Ernest Pothier
3.94
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Jim Finley—a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco—ha… read more
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30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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