Wreck: The Art of Being Lost at Sea
By: Tom de Freston
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An artist's obsession with Géricault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely…
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1. Agnes
By: Peter Stamm
3.22
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
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"Sie war unruhig, und doch schienen wir - ohne mehr voneinander zu wissen als unsere Namen - über Nacht vertrauter miteinander geworden zu sein."-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"Glück macht keine guten Geschichten. Glück lässt sich nicht beschreiben. Es ist wie Nebel, wie Rauch, durchsichtig und flüchtig. Hast du jemals einen Maler gesehen, der Rauch malen konnte?"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"Ich kannte kaum jemanden in der Stadt. Niemanden, um genau zu sein. Ein paarmal hatte ich mich verliebt in ein Gesicht, aber ich hatte gelernt, solchen Gefühlen auszuweichen, bevor sie zu einer Bedro…"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"It feels to me as thought I've become the character in it, and the character's life ends when the books does. I suppose there are times I'm glad too. Then the ending is like coming out of a bad dream…"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
2. The Bone Clocks
By: David Mitchell
3.84
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old li… read more
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"The Future,"-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
"Books’ll be back,"-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
"Guys are all sperm-guns."-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
"Don’t mess with the fairies."-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
3. Viper Wine
By: Hermione Eyre
3.30
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciousl… read more
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4. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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5. Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9)
By: Tove Jansson , Kingsley Hart
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the ser… read more
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6. Bear
By: Marian Engel
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel wh… read more
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7. Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks , None , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients… read more
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8. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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9. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
11. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
12. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
13. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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14. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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16. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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- nonfiction
17. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
By: Anya von Bremzen
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
19. Sea Monsters
By: Chloe Aridjis
3.37
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters o… read more
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"Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearanc…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you imm…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
"There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and th…"-Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. Pandora
By: Susan Stokes-Chapman
3.67
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more
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"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora
"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora
22. The Leviathan
By: Rosie Andrews
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more
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"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan
23. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
24. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
25. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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26. Milk: On Motherhood and Madness
By: Alice Kinsella
3.82
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new… read more
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27. Paul
By: Daisy Lafarge
3.49
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tend… read more
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28. Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Davis
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age … read more
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29. Unknown Language
By: Huw Lemmey
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Long before the collapse of the Information Age, in the twelfth century since the appearance of the… read more
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30. Wreck: The Art of Being Lost at Sea
By: Tom de Freston
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An artist's obsession with Géricault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely… read more
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31. Nettleblack
By: Nat Reeve
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Subversive and playful, Nettleblack is a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess … read more
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