Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Golf
By: Andrew Greig
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sw…
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1. The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
By: David Baldacci
4.16
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Will Robie is a master of killing.A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government c… read more
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"She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field."-David Baldacci, The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
2. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.98
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
3. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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4. Runaway
By: Peter May
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet… read more
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5. The Secret Scripture
By: Sebastian Barry
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Re… read more
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6. Any Human Heart
By: William Boyd
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more
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7. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
5.00
Format: None pages,
Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she i… read more
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8. Run
By: Ann Patchett
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexis… read more
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9. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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10. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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11. A History of Loneliness
By: John Boyne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When h… read more
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12. The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)
By: David Baldacci
4.17
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That'… read more
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13. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
14. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar
By: Alan Shipnuck
4.06
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more
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15. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
By: Alan Shipnuck
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more
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16. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
By: John Boyne
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more
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17. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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18. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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19. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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20. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
21. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
22. A Spy Alone
By: Charles Beaumont
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more
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23. The Dark Remains
By: William McIlvanney
3.84
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more
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"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains
24. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)
By: David McCloskey
4.30
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more
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25. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
26. A Song for the Dark Times (Inspector Rebus, #23)
By: Ian Rankin
4.13
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"He’s gone…" When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not goo… read more
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27. Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy
By: Paul Vidich
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA … read more
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28. The Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure
By: Michael Bamberger
3.96
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of … read more
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29. Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening
By: Geoff Shackelford
3.69
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
In Golf Architecture for Normal People, golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford elucidates the w… read more
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30. Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2)
By: Robbie Morrison
4.34
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set the… read more
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31. Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Golf
By: Andrew Greig
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sw… read more
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