Against The Wall
By: Simon Yates
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic stru…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
- outdoors
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. The People in the Trees
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.73
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more
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"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
3. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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- adventure
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
4. Sycamore Gap (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #2)
By: L.J. Ross
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the e… read more
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5. Heavenfield (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #3)
By: L.J. Ross
4.34
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
When a man is found dead at the remote church of Heavenfield, DCI Ryan is the only other person for… read more
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6. The English Patient
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more
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7. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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8. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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9. The Climb - Tragic Ambitions on Everest
By: Anatoli Boukreev , G. Weston DeWalt
3.68
Format: 528 pages,
The Climbis Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest … read more
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10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
11. The Sense of an Ending
By: Julian Barnes
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more
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12. The Beckoning Silence
By: Joe Simpson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I had to stand there and watch while the rest of my life was determined by the shaky adhesion of a… read more
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13. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
By: Stieg Larsson , Reg Keeland
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy. Lisbeth… read more
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14. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
15. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)
By: L.J. Ross
4.01
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more
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16. The Hike
By: Lucy Clarke
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history,… read more
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17. The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
By: Michael Connelly
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk… read more
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18. 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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- adventure
"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
19. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
20. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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21. The Sanctuary
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
3.55
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owne… read more
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22. The Snowdonia Killings (DI Ruth Hunter, #1)
By: Simon McCleave
4.09
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
A small-town murder. A big city detective. Can she unravel the gruesome trail of clues before the k… read more
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23. The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except for his past. An outsider himself, DS Geor… read more
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24. SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life
By: Jenny Tough
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- adventure
25. The Lost Notebook (Toussaints Detective Agency, #1)
By: Louise Douglas
4.00
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect sea… read more
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26. The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4)
By: William Shaw
4.26
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A DOUBLE MURDER The naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only… read more
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27. The Cyclist (DS Cross #2)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.24
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
To solve any murder, you must first know your victim . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has … read more
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28. How to Be a Footballer
By: Peter Crouch
4.10
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous beha… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
29. The Whistleblower
By: Robert Peston
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And jour… read more
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30. Against The Wall
By: Simon Yates
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic stru… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- climbing
- outdoors
31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
