The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket
By: Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket …
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1. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
By: Michael Smith
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more
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2. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
3. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
4. How to Be Good
By: Nick Hornby
4.50
Format: 60 pages,
In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly tryingto be. That's why she became a GP. T… read more
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5. Bastard Out of Carolina
By: Dorothy Allison
3.99
Format: 32 pages,
Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more
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6. The Running Man
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.90
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more
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"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."-Stephen King, The Running Man
7. The Islandman
By: Tomás Ó Criomhthainn
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master … read more
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8. Unraveling Oliver
By: Liz Nugent
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her." So begins Liz Nugent's astonishing debut … read more
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9. Anything Is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.20
Format: None pages,
Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more
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10. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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11. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by… read more
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12. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more
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13. The Trespasser
By: Tana French
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
New York Timesbestselling author Tana French is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough,… read more
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14. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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15. Juno Loves Legs
By: Karl Geary
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more
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16. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
17. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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18. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
19. The Angel of Rome and Other Stories
By: Jess Walter
4.01
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stun… read more
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20. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
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- memoir
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
21. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
22. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
23. Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more
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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
24. To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.22
Format: 352 pages, ebook
During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the … read more
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"There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere—it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"And I know only too well how time can cast a sort of skin over an event—a membrane that gets thicker until a point where broaching the subject is all but impossible, even when you think you can face …"-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
25. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
26. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.32
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more
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"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
27. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
28. The Raptures
By: Jan Carson
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to … read more
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29. The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket
By: Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket … read more
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- memoir
- ireland
