Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.07
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Leigh Fermor was hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation. His letters are of…
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1. Birdsong
By: Sebastian Faulks
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more
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2. Amy and Isabelle
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her stunning first novel Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from … read more
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3. Family Album
By: Penelope Lively
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A big shabby Victorian suburban house, the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall, the six m… 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. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
By: Artemis Cooper
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above al… read more
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6. Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)
By: Marian Keyes
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that he… read more
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7. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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8. The Morning Gift
By: Eva Ibbotson
2.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supp… read more
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9. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
By: William Carlsen
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) "Thrilling. ... A captivating history of two men who dramat… read more
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10. Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979
By: Ysenda Maxtone Graham
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham's quietly hilarious history of life in British girls' boa… read more
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11. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
By: Garth Nix
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers w… read more
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"Shakespeare knew too much."-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
"Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace."-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
"I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive."-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
"Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do."-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
15. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
16. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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17. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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18. 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
19. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
20. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
By: Alan Rickman
3.58
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more
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"The trouble with death is that there is no next."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
21. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more
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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
22. Black Water Sister
By: Zen Cho
3.86
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma… read more
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"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
23. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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24. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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25. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
26. Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)
By: Marian Keyes
4.29
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. Since her spell in rehab, though, she's come a long way o… read more
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"It might be uncomfortable. But it's an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant."-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)
"- but forcing you to stop wouldn’t have gotten you clean. You had to be the one who decided. It took me nearly six months to face it, you didn’t love me enough -‘ ‘Of course I loved you!"-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)
"[…] How often have I told you that is an addict doesn’t lose something, they’ve no incentive to change?’ ‘Right.’ But he didn’t like it. ‘In fact, if - and it’s not going to - but it if I ever relaps…"-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)
27. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
28. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
29. Back in the Day: A Memoir
By: Melvyn Bragg
4.35
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir -- an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria,… read more
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30. Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.07
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Leigh Fermor was hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation. His letters are of… read more
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