Silence of the Chagos: A Novel
By: Shenaz Patel
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural…
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1. The Making of Asian America: A History
By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more
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- historical
2. Death and the Maiden
By: Ariel Dorfman
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only rece… read more
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- fiction
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3. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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4. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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- fiction
5. Untouchable
By: E.M. Forster , Mulk Raj Anand
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's cast… read more
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6. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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7. In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown,… read more
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8. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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9. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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10. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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11. Beyrouth-sur-Seine
By: Sabyl Ghoussoub
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Lorsque le narrateur décide de questionner ses parents sur leur pays d'origine, le Liban, il ne sai… read more
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- france
12. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- adult
- fiction
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13. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)
By: Leïla Slimani
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the … read more
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- africa
- historical
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
By: Małgorzata Rejmer
4.55
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Błoto słodsze niż miód to opowieść o kraju udręczonym terrorem Envera Hoxhy, dyktatora, który po ze… read more
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- historical
"Bo partia znaczyła więcej niż Bóg, Bóg nie istniał. A nawet jeśli istniał, to był wszechmocny tylko w teorii, a patia była wszechmocna w praktyce. Bóg nie potrafił zniszczyć partii, ale partia potraf…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Cierpieć w stopniu znikomym to jakby nie cierpieć wcale, to właściwie poniekąd cieszyć się ze śmierci – zaleca się zatem kilka lat przymusowego odosobnienia, by osobnik reakcyjny mógł w spokoju przem…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Albański komunizm był jak twierdza, z której murów codziennie odpadało kilka kamieni. Albo jak podupadła drewniana chałupa z przegniłym dachem, pleśnią na ścianach i zalanymi fundamentami, która, o d…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Pewnego razu zdumieni mieszkańcy Szkodry ujrzeli przy głównej ulicy nowy, zupełnie niezwykły sklep, pełen słodyczy, owoców i od lat niewidzianych smakołyków. Zaraz zebrał się tłum, ale na rozkaz poli…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
16. L'Ordre du jour
By: Éric Vuillard
3.90
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexor… read more
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- historical
- france
"The sun is a cold star."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Political maneuvering tramples facts."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Si l'on soulève les haillons hideux de l'Histoire, on trouve cela: la hiérarchie contre légalité et l'ordre contre la liberté. (p127)"-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"They might not give in to the demands of justice, they might not yield to an insurgent populace, but they'll always fold before a bluff."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
17. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- africa
- historical
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
18. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
19. 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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- fiction
20. Lemon
By: Kwon Yeo-Sun
3.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more
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- adult
- fiction
21. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
22. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By: William Neuman
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more
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- adult
23. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- fiction
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
24. The Black Crescent
By: Jane Johnson
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A captivating historical novel set in post-war Casablanca about a young man marked by djinns who mu… read more
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- africa
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- historical fiction
25. When the Ground Is Hard
By: Malla Nunn
4.15
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more
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"Jane is stuck in the space between things."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
26. A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
By: Paul Caruana Galizia
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A journalist’s account of the murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reve… read more
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27. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
28. An Impossible Return
By: Caroline Laurent
4.19
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse An epic love story set against a backdrop of injustice, d… read more
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- historical
- mauritius
- france
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- historical fiction
- adult
29. When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
By: Quan Barry
4.01
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswe… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. Indian Tango
By: Ananda Devi
3.69
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
«Elle s'est tournée pour partir sans même me voir, rentrée en elle-même, inatteignable. Elle a ress… read more
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31. Silence of the Chagos: A Novel
By: Shenaz Patel
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural… read more
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- the world
- mauritius
- france
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- adult
