Becoming Dinah
By: Kit de Waal
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A YA coming-of-age road trip novel about obsession, self-discovery, female power, and the people we…
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1. Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
By: Holly Smale
3.75
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Harriet Manners knows a lot of things. She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiff… read more
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- fiction
- teen
- young adult
- contemporary
"She's....having an affair with a strawberry jam manufacturer?"-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"Es la primera y única regla: la magia aparece cuando no la estás buscando."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"Your daughter is adorable. I've never seen such an alien duck in my entire life."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
2. A Year of Marvellous Ways
By: Sarah Winman
3.87
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"You have to risk failure to become excellent."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
3. Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)
By: Marita Conlon-McKenna , Donald Teskey
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of bei… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
4. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- lgbt
5. The Bone Sparrow
By: Zana Fraillon
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fl… read more
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6. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
7. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
8. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
9. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
10. The Last Stars in the Sky (Lost Lake Book 1)
By: Kate Hewitt
4.27
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
From a million-copy bestselling author, comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking story about one wo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
11. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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- fiction
12. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
13. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
14. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
15. Scripted
By: Fearne Cotton
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Jade Shaw has lost control of her life. Pushed around by her warring family, and taken for grant… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Whispering Muse
By: Laura Purcell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more
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- fiction
17. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. Baby Love
By: Jacqueline Wilson
4.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequ… read more
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- family
- fiction
- young adult
19. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
20. The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide
By: Siena Castellon
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Never be ashamed of being different: it is this difference that makes you extraordinary and unique… read more
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21. Becoming Dinah
By: Kit de Waal
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A YA coming-of-age road trip novel about obsession, self-discovery, female power, and the people we… read more
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- retellings
- teen
- lgbt
- travel
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- road trip
