In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Various
3.90
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
Gardening, then, is a practice of sustained noticing . . .’ Outdoor space is something everyone …
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1. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. Autumn
By: Ali Smith
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more
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3. Moshi moshi
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more
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4. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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5. The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more
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6. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
7. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nature
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
8. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
9. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
10. A Frozen Woman
By: Annie Ernaux
4.16
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more
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"Old equals plain equals lonely."-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman
11. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
13. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- nonfiction
14. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
15. 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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"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
16. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
17. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- nature
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18. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
19. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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20. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
21. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
By: Ali Smith
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more
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"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
22. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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23. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
24. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
25. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- essays
26. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
27. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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28. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- nature
- essays
29. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
By: Jessica J. Lee
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more
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- nature
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30. By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
By: Amy-Jane Beer
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What is a river?, asks Amy-Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature … read more
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31. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Various
3.90
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
Gardening, then, is a practice of sustained noticing . . .’ Outdoor space is something everyone … read more
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