5 Best contemporary books like Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood

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Bluebeard's Egg

By: Margaret Atwood

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard'S Eggglows with childhood memories, th…

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1. Birthday Letters

By: Ted Hughes

3.90

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more

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  • literature
"What happened casually remains -"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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2. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands

By: Charles Moore

4.18

Format: 859 pages, Hardcover

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biogra… read more

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3. A Son of the Circus

By: John Irving

3.91

Format: None pages,

A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffe… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders

By: Robertson Davies

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

"Who killed Boy Staunton?"This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • canada
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5. R Is for Rocket

By: Ray Bradbury

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: Introduction * in R Is for Rocket ["King of the Gray Spaces"] * ss Famous Fantastic Myste… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. A Jest of God

By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rac… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
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7. Hideous Kinky

By: Esther Freud

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When her mother decides to take her and her sister away from life as they know it and move to Moroc… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. La Barbe Bleue

By: Charles Perrault , Jean Claverie

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • short stories
Cover of What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2) by Robertson Davies

9. What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)

By: Robertson Davies

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his child… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
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10. Bluebeard's Egg

By: Margaret Atwood

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard'S Eggglows with childhood memories, th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • canadian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

11. The Early Stories of Truman Capote

By: Truman Capote , Hilton Als

4.06

Format: 205 pages, ebook

The early fiction of one of the nation's most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his fi… read more

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12. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

By: Alan Sillitoe

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with… read more

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13. Venus and Adonis

By: William Shakespeare , Christa Jansohn

3.28

Format: 404 pages,

Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal… read more

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14. The Complete Poems

By: John Keats

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 … read more

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15. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

16. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise o… read more

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17. Incest

By: Marquis de Sade , Janet Street-Porter

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

By: Valerie Martin

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engross… read more

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19. The Water-Method Man

By: John Irving

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a per… read more

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20. Tales of Power

By: Carlos Castaneda

3.99

Format: 244 pages,

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21. Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City

By: Anna Minton

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

When the figures say crime is falling, why are we more frightened than ever? Could our towns and ci… read more

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22. Sabine's Notebook (Griffin & Sabine #2)

By: Nick Bantock

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Griffin Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismi… read more

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23. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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24. The Fire-Dwellers

By: Margaret Laurence , Sylvia Fraser

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stacey MacAindra burns - to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover… read more

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25. A Bird in the House

By: Margaret Laurence

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and t… read more

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26. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more

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  • contemporary
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"

-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

Cover of Rakkauksien lokikirja by Elina Hirvonen

27. Rakkauksien lokikirja

By: Elina Hirvonen

3.83

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Romaanitrilogian ensimmäisessä osassa rakkauteen liittyvistä keskusteluista muodostuu ihmisten väli… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

By: Priya Satia

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations,… read more

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Cover of Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo by José Luis González Macías

30. Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo

By: José Luis González Macías

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Sentinelle che si tengono ben salde ai loro scogli, i fari sono veri e propri monumenti ai segreti … read more

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31. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 3: Herself Alone

By: Charles Moore

4.41

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

Charles Moore's masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches… read more

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10 Top fiction books like Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood

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A Son of the Circus

John Irving

3.91

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The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders

Robertson Davies

3.71

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R Is for Rocket

Ray Bradbury

5.00

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A Jest of God

Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence

3.80

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Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kaarna

Tommi Kinnunen

4.24

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36 uurnaa : väärässä olemisen historia

Sirpa Kähkönen

3.59

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Erään kissan tutkimuksia

Katja Kettu

3.93

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