The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India
By: Jahnavi Misra
3.57
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Based on work by Project 39A An ex-bandit fights the silence of prison life with her noteboo…
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1. Sputnik Sweetheart
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.83
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
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"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
2. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
By: Fredrik Backman
4.33
Format: 97 pages, Kindle Edition
A little book with a big heart! From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove,… read more
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"And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,"-Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
"You never became ordinary to me, my love. You were electric shocks and fire."-Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
"Your grandma always had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost on an escalator."-Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
"Most of all it’s about time. While we still have it. Thank you for giving this story yours."-Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
3. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
4. Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
By: Sujatha Gidla
3.97
Format: 570 pages,
The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutio… read more
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5. The Complete Persepolis
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris
4.16
Format: 331 pages,
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6. Embroideries
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more
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8. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
By: Ransom Riggs
4.06
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can h… read more
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"At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery."-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
"I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch"-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
"Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed."-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
9. Dharmayoddha Kalki: Avatar Of Vishnu
By: Kevin Missal
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an upsurge in unrighteousness, at that time, I tak… read more
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10. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more
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11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more
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12. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
13. Maktub
By: Paulo Coelho
4.60
Format: None pages,
Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more
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15. The Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold
3.88
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more
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"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
16. The Housekeeper and the Professor
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he ha… read more
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17. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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18. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
19. The Stationery Shop
By: Marjan Kamali
4.22
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall … read more
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"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
20. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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21. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
22. Stillness Is the Key
By: Ryan Holiday
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more
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"Build a life you don't need to escape from."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
23. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
24. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
By: Baek Se-hee
3.28
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more
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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
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"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
25. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
26. Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer
By: Sunil Gupta
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
What is life like inside Asia’s largest prison? What happens when a man is hanged, but his pulse re… read more
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"The irony is that in jail, often the saviour can be the perpetrator."-Sunil Gupta, Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer
"We do not hate the person but the crime they commit and our job was to treat them as humanely as possible so they had a chance of reforming."-Sunil Gupta, Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer
27. A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Rohit de
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by e… read more
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28. Why Men Rape: An Indian Undercover Investigation
By: Tara Kaushal
3.95
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
To stop it you have to see it. India has been ranked among the worlds most unsafe countries for wom… read more
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29. The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India
By: Jahnavi Misra
3.57
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Based on work by Project 39A An ex-bandit fights the silence of prison life with her noteboo… read more
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