Afternoon Raag
By: Amit Chaudhuri
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Afternoon Raag deals with the experiences and impressions of a young Indian student of English Lite…
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1. Waiting for the Barbarians
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more
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"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
2. A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
By: Abir Mukherjee
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B019CGXRZM The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crim… read more
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3. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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- novels
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4. Another Day of Life
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more
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5. Afternoon Raag
By: Amit Chaudhuri
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Afternoon Raag deals with the experiences and impressions of a young Indian student of English Lite… read more
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- literary fiction
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- india
- 20th century
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6. Love and Longing in Bombay
By: Vikram Chandra
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the heels of his award-winning and extravagantly praised first novel, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN… read more
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7. Botchan
By: Natsume Sōseki , Joel Cohn
3.64
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about … read more
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"الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
8. The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng… read more
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9. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more
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10. The Good Doctor
By: Damon Galgut
4.62
Format: None pages,
The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at … read more
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11. Other Voices, Other Rooms
By: Truman Capote
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more
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"Only."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
12. Under the Udala Trees
By: Chinelo Okparanta
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more
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13. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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14. The Awakening and Selected Stories
By: Kate Chopin , Nina Baym , Kaye Gibbons
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, … read more
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15. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- british literature
16. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- british literature
17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. The Motion of the Body Through Space
By: Lionel Shriver
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages bett… read more
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"She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone."-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space
"I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in d…"-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space
19. A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)
By: Sebastian Barry
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the Amer… read more
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"But we only have one path across the mire of remembrance in general."-Sebastian Barry, A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)
20. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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21. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
22. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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23. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- literary fiction
- india
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"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
24. Her Side of the Story
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.07
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more
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25. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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26. Turbulence
By: David Szalay
3.62
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic n… read more
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27. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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28. Latitudes of Longing
By: Shubhangi Swarup
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more
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- literary fiction
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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing
29. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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- fiction
"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
30. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
