Still Life
By: Zoë Wicomb
3.83
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020 A stunningly original new novel exploring r…
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1. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
2. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
3. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
4. Fast Talking PI
By: Selina Tusitala Marsh
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry The judging panel found Marsh's… read more
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5. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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6. The Answers
By: Catherine Lacey
3.59
Format: 32 pages,
An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more
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7. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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8. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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9. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
10. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- fiction
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
11. Lonely Castle in the Mirror
By: Mizuki Tsujimura
4.27
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face thei… read more
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"In another world, we were already friends."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
12. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
13. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
15. Bolla
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more
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"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
16. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
17. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
18. Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfyin… read more
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19. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
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"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
20. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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21. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
22. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
23. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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24. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
25. Real Life
By: Brandon Taylor
3.80
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more
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"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"-Brandon Taylor, Real Life
26. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
27. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
28. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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29. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
30. Lost Cat
By: Mary Gaitskill
4.09
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is pr… read more
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"Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a littl…"-Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat
31. Still Life
By: Zoë Wicomb
3.83
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020 A stunningly original new novel exploring r… read more
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