18 best-selling fiction books like Typhoon by Qaisra Shahraz

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Typhoon

By: Qaisra Shahraz

3.20

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

"Typhoon" is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitan…

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1. Sweet Bean Paste

By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more

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2. Patchwork

By: Ellen Banda-Aaku

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two … read more

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3. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

4. Here Comes the Sun

By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

3.94

Format: 256 pages,

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more

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5. Augustown

By: Kei Miller

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more

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6. She Wore Red Trainers

By: Na'ima B. Robert

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When Ali first meets Amirah, he notices everything about her--her hijab, her long eyelashes and her… read more

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7. The Turnglass

By: Gareth Rubin

3.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon … read more

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"These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

"It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

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8. We Are Displaced

By: Malala Yousafzai

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother. Zaynab… read more

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"I think it’s time that people update themselves, educate themselves, and inform themselves."

-Malala Yousafzai, We Are Displaced

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9. Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.02

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Pe… read more

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"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn’t make it a philosopher"

-Vaseem Khan, Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

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10. The Mountains Sing

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more

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"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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11. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

By: Lyse Doucet

4.26

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

"Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind an… read more

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"Literature is resilience, a release."

-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

"Thank god, I said to myself, that the sun is not someone's property, otherwise I'd have to pay rent for that as well."

-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

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12. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

By: Nadia Wassef

3.56

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet… read more

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13. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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14. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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15. Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

By: Maryla Szymiczkowa

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cracow, 1893. Thirty-eight-year-old Zofia Turbotyńska has assured her husband's rise through the ra… read more

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"Ignacy! - zapłonęła świętym oburzeniem, jak zawsze, kiedy powiedziano jej prawdę prosto w oczy."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Ignacy bywał trudny, to prawda, ale pomysł, że można zamordować męża, wydawał jej się... w złym guście."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Zdrowo - zmarszczył czoło Iwaniec - żaden zmarły nie wygląda zdrowo. Ustanie życia jest objawem zdecydowanego braku zdrowia. Definitywnego, rzekłbym."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Ale ten entuzjazm nie przystoi profesorowi, Ignacy - ofuknęła męża. - W takiej chwili twoją rolą jest zachować się dostojnie, a nie ekscytować głupstwami."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

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16. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

By: Mirinae Lee

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more

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17. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

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18. The Color of Air

By: Gail Tsukiyama

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a go… read more

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19. The Three of Us

By: Ore Agbaje-Williams

2.96

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more

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20. Ayrılık Çeşmesi Sokağı

By: Selçuk Altun

3.41

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Ziya Adlan kırk yıldır akademisyenlik yaptığı Cenevre’den dönüp, Ayrılık Çeşmesi Sokağı’ndaki bakım… read more

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21. Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a m… read more

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"Wood and glass and a roof do not constitute a world."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I’ll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"She wondered if he kept a pair of calipers to measure his guests' skulls."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

Cover of The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng'ete

22. The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

By: Nice Leng'ete

4.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The "incredibly powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) story of the human rights activist who changed the minds… read more

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23. The Selfless Act of Breathing

By: J.J. Bola

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Transcendent Kingdom meets A Man Called Ove in this heartwarming novel about a Congolese-British Lo… read more

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"Sometimes it is easier to forget than to heal."

-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing

"Oh, how would we treat the people in our lives if we knew which conversation would be the last? would we act differently? Appreciate every moment? Tell them we love them?"

-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing

"It is in these moments that we are compelled to question the meaning of life, and whether life has any meaning at all; moments when tragedy hits us so unexpectedly, and so sudden. But it is also in t…"

-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing

"Some days, I am just tired. Some days, I'm barely strong enough to carry the burden of my heavy heart, let alone the weight of the world on my shoulders, some days I need space on my own, no internet…"

-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing

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24. A People's History of Heaven

By: Mathangi Subramanian

4.03

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Heaven is a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new, high-rise apartment buildings and techno… read more

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"So what you’re saying is,"

-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven

"It’s not that I don’t want to be part of something bigger,"

-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven

"Bravery, she thinks, belongs to girls. But freedom belongs to boys."

-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven

"You don’t have to light a match to burn a family’s life to the ground."

-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven

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25. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

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"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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26. War Gardens

By: Lalage Snow

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A journey through the most unlikely of the oases of peace people create in the midst of warIn this… read more

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27. Before the Queen Falls Asleep

By: Huzama Habayeb

3.58

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy'… read more

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28. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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29. Typhoon

By: Qaisra Shahraz

3.20

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

"Typhoon" is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitan… read more

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