Black Car Burning
By: Helen Mort
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort Alexa is a police community…
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1. Vinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
3.38
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
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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- literary fiction
- fiction
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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. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- british literature
5. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
6. An Equal Music
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boyreturns with a powerful and deeply romanti… read more
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7. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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8. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- lgbt
"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
9. Instructions for a Heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more
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10. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
11. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
12. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
13. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- lgbt
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
14. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
15. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
16. Grown Ups
By: Marian Keyes
3.94
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beauti… read more
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- fiction
"Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss. Momentarily the emptiness was unbearable."-Marian Keyes, Grown Ups
17. Free Love
By: Tessa Hadley
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
18. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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19. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
By: Elif Shafak
4.09
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour … read more
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- fiction
- novels
"Grief is a swallow,"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"كانت ليلى هي الوحيدة التي اعتقدت أنه قادر على تحقيق الأشياء العظيمة"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
20. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans
By: Elise Downing
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more
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21. Expectation
By: Anna Hope
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. …"-Anna Hope, Expectation
"Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the ba…"-Anna Hope, Expectation
22. 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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- fiction
- novels
"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
23. The Fell
By: Sarah Moss
3.63
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more
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"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."-Sarah Moss, The Fell
24. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
25. Little
By: Edward Carey
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by r… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves."-Edward Carey, Little
"What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of."-Edward Carey, Little
"What is a life? That is what we were left with: stories. They were our clothes."-Edward Carey, Little
"I collect the walks of my life. Some people have asked me if I have walked so very far to merit such an activity, but I say to them, it's not about how far you have walked, but how thoroughly."-Edward Carey, Little
26. Slug
By: Hollie McNish
4.51
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more
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27. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
28. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- british literature
29. Come Again
By: Robert Webb
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when s… read more
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- fiction
30. Insatiable
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend; Violet's life is… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- lgbt
31. Black Car Burning
By: Helen Mort
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort Alexa is a police community… read more
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