Wicked but virtuous: My life
By: Mirka Mora
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
No conventional autobiography, Wicked But Virtuous is a delightfully eccentric account of a life li…
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1. First Love
By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev
3.77
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
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"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."-Constance Garnett, First Love
2. Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
3.52
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more
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"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
3. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
By: Holly Ringland
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more
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4. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
5. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
6. Goblin Market and Other Poems
By: Christina Rossetti , Candace Ward
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrot… read more
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7. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
8. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
9. 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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10. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
11. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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12. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
13. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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14. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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15. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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- memoir
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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
16. The Conversion
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more
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17. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
18. Slade House
By: David Mitchell
3.81
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more
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"Coffee’s the elixir of life."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"-David Mitchell, Slade House
19. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
20. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison
By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more
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21. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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22. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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23. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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24. The Anniversary
By: Stephanie Bishop
3.10
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascen… read more
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25. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
26. 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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27. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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28. The Albatross
By: Nina Wan
3.48
Format: None pages, ebook
'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhe… read more
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29. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir
By: Charlotte Ree
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more
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30. Wicked but virtuous: My life
By: Mirka Mora
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
No conventional autobiography, Wicked But Virtuous is a delightfully eccentric account of a life li… read more
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31. The Heartbeat Library
By: Laura Imai Messina
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Nel sud-ovest del Giappone, in una pozza di mare condivisa da due province, Kagawa e Okayama, nuota… read more
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