The New Yorker Magazine, September 21 2020
By: The New Yorker
3.46
Format: None pages, Magazine
Includes "Face Time," short story by Lorrie Moore
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1. Specimen Days
By: Michael Cunningham
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Lucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that f… read more
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- short stories
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"She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church."-Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
"She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that," Simon said. "It shouldn't. If you don't like 'Lord,' pick another word. She's g…"-Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
2. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- fiction
3. Away
By: Amy Bloom
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent… read more
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- fiction
4. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- fiction
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
6. Le Réfectoire un soir et une piscine sous la pluie
By: Yōko Ogawa , None
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Quelque temps avant son mariage, une jeune femme rencontre un enfant et son pere, qu'elle retrouve … read more
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7. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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9. Ill Seen Ill Said
By: Samuel Beckett
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This late work from Samuel Beckett is the haunting picture of an old woman alone in a cabin, who wa… read more
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10. The Moons of Jupiter
By: Alice Munro
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live a… read more
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11. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
12. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
13. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
14. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
15. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- audiobook
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
16. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Amy Bloom
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more
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- audiobook
17. 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
- audiobook
"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
18. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
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21. The New Yorker Magazine, September 21 2020
By: The New Yorker
3.46
Format: None pages, Magazine
Includes "Face Time," short story by Lorrie Moore read more
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