The Great Homecoming
By: Anna Kim
3.45
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
1959, Seoul. Divided from his family by the violent tumult of the Korean civil war, Yunho arrives i…
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1. Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #3)
By: Andrzej Sapkowski
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. F… read more
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- fiction
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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3. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
By: Andrzej Sapkowski
4.27
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, h… read more
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- fiction
"Padlina będzie dla was, czarodziejów, nikt wam jej nie zabierze. Chyba że inne sępy."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
"It’s like they said! Geralt! It’s like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?' ‘You’re more than that, Ciri. Much more."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
"Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?’ ‘Yes. It’s hard to call an accident destiny.’ ‘But you witchers do not stop searching?’ ‘No, we don’t. But it’s senseless. Nothing has any point."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
"It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night."-Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
4. To Paradise
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.75
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
5. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
6. The Anomaly
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.81
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more
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- fiction
"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
7. The Door-to-Door Bookstore
By: Carsten Henn
4.14
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations … read more
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"If you can tell when a book is good, why don’t you write one yourself?"-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"You need to read more. It makes the brain flexible, so that anything can fit into it."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"She didn't need to believe in God; it was entirely sufficient that God believed in her."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
8. Blue Skies
By: T.C. Boyle
3.81
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary A… read more
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- fiction
9. Dunkelblum
By: Eva Menasse
3.78
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem. Auf den ersten Blick ist Dunkelblum eine Kleinstadt wie jede a… read more
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- historical fiction
10. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
11. 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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- fiction
"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
12. Junge Frau, am Fenster stehend, Abendlicht, blaues Kleid
By: Alena Schröder
4.11
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
In Berlin tobt das Leben, nur die 27-jährige Hannah spürt, dass ihres noch nicht angefangen hat. Ih… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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- asia
- fiction
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
14. Wo auch immer ihr seid
By: Khuê Pham
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sie ist dreißig Jahre alt und heißt Kiều, so wie das Mädchen im berühmtesten Werk der vietnamesisch… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Die Teehändlerin
By: Susanne Popp
3.81
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Frankfurt 1838: Als Kaufmannstochter und Ehefrau des Teehändlers Tobias Ronnefeldt genießt Friederi… read more
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16. The Great Homecoming
By: Anna Kim
3.45
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
1959, Seoul. Divided from his family by the violent tumult of the Korean civil war, Yunho arrives i… read more
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