The Book of Paradise: The Wonderful Adventures of Shmuel-Aba Abervo
By: Itzik Manger
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A child born in an east European Jewish community retains his memory of life in Paradise in this no…
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1. Inland
By: Gerald Murnane
4.08
Format: 31 pages,
Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
2. A Kiss Before Dying
By: Ira Levin , Otto Penzler
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her first year o… read more
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- fiction
3. Skylark
By: Dezső Kosztolányi , Péter Esterházy , Richard Aczel
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays--call them Mother and Father--live in Sarszeg, a … read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
4. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
5. The Ark Sakura
By: Kōbō Abe , Juliet Winters Carpenter
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Tells of a fat hermit whose fears of a nuclear disaster lead him to build a shelter inside a mounta… read more
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6. The Kraken Wakes
By: John Wyndham
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
7. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
8. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
9. Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
10. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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- fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
11. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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- fiction
"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
12. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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- fiction
"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
13. The Shadow King
By: Maaza Mengiste
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more
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- fiction
"The routine dulls the terror."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"He holds no importance except what memory allows."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
14. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
15. 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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- fantasy
- fiction
"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
16. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)
By: Iris Yamashita
3.54
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more
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- fiction
17. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
By: Judy Batalion
4.07
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… read more
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- jewish
"The Nazis were particularly brutal with children, who represented the Jewish future. Boys and girls who were not useful for slave labor were some of the first Jews to be killed."-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
"An old Jewish joke went - A man asks whether his town is now in Soviet or Polish territory. He's told, "This year we're in Poland." "Thank goodness!", the man exclaims. "I simply could not take anoth…"-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
18. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.89
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more
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- fiction
19. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.83
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more
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- fiction
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
20. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine
By: Arlo Parks
3.89
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb… read more
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21. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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- fiction
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
22. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
23. Carnality
By: Lina Wolff
3.68
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for i… read more
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- fiction
"Ada rose even more in my estimation at that. I realized she had got completely lost in the male narrative and her mind, which had to be both sensitive and sharp, had been absorbing fragments of it he…"-Lina Wolff, Carnality
24. Four Seasons in Japan
By: Nick Bradley
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more
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- fiction
"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
25. Your Presence Is Mandatory
By: Sasha Vasilyuk
3.52
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more
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- fiction
- jewish
26. Mother Doll
By: Katya Apekina
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more
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- fiction
27. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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- fiction
28. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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- religion
- jewish
29. The Book of Paradise: The Wonderful Adventures of Shmuel-Aba Abervo
By: Itzik Manger
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A child born in an east European Jewish community retains his memory of life in Paradise in this no… read more
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- jewish
- romanian literature
- religion
- fiction
- 20th century
- fantasy
30. Mazaltob: A Novel (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
By: Blanche Bendahan
4.27
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
The first English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist lite… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
31. If Only
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking but timeless early work from one of the world's most heralded novelists A relat… read more
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