According to Queeney
By: Beryl Bainbridge
4.04
Format: 9 pages,
Bainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays th…
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1. Solar
By: Ian McEwan
3.28
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his repu… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"As if marriages were a series of corrected drafts."-Ian McEwan, Solar
"No one can predict which of life’s vexations insomnia will favour."-Ian McEwan, Solar
"The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution."-Ian McEwan, Solar
"The revolutionary lone inventor was a fantasy of popular culture – and the Minister"-Ian McEwan, Solar
2. The Goshawk
By: T.H. White , Marie Winn
3.83
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T.H. White, the author of The Once and Future … read more
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- literature
"What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind…"-T.H. White, The Goshawk
3. Flaubert's Parrot
By: Julian Barnes
3.65
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
4. Arthur & George
By: Julian Barnes
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find … read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. According to Queeney
By: Beryl Bainbridge
4.04
Format: 9 pages,
Bainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays th… read more
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- literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
- comedy
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8. The Rachel Papers
By: Martin Amis
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of … read more
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9. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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10. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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11. The Hotel New Hampshire
By: John Irving
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, an… read more
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12. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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13. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
By: Alan Sillitoe , None
3.78
Format: None pages,
Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabits the no-man's-land of institutionalised Borstal. As his stead… read more
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14. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
15. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- fiction
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
17. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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- fiction
"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
18. Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)
By: Attica Locke
3.89
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on… read more
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19. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
20. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- fiction
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
21. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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- historical
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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
