Rustication
By: Charles Palliser
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx. Charles Palliser's w…
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1. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
By: Mark Bowden
4.15
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran … read more
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"Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming."-Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
2. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
3. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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- fiction
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
4. Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
By: Larry McMurtry
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larr… read more
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"I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,"-Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
5. The Glass of Time (The Meaning of Night, #2)
By: Michael Cox
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Building on his haunting, superbly written debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a st… read more
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- gothic
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- historical fiction
- mystery
6. The Birds and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.39
Format: 440 pages, ebook
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more
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7. The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy, #1)
By: Robertson Davies
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Defrocked monks, mad professors, and wealthy eccentrics - a remarkable cast peoples Robertson Davie… read more
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8. The Patrick Melrose Novels (Patrick Melrose #1-4)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AnAtlantic MagazineBest Book of the Year A Publishers WeeklyBest Book of the Ye… read more
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9. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
10. Arcadia
By: Iain Pears
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of o… read more
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11. In Times of Fading Light
By: Anthea Bell , Eugen Ruge
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Enthrallingly expansive in its geographical and temporal sweep, this story of a German family tells… read more
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12. Rustication
By: Charles Palliser
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx. Charles Palliser's w… read more
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13. Snowblind
By: Christopher Golden
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Steph… read more
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14. Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)
By: David Morrell
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller. Thomas De Q… read more
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15. Mr. Timothy
By: Louis Bayard
3.61
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, … read more
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"I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river."-Louis Bayard, Mr. Timothy
"For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged …"-Louis Bayard, Mr. Timothy
16. Something Light
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4.00
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The life of a bachelorette and professional dog photographer as she tries to find herself and be on… read more
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17. Joe
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
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18. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
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4.30
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top television production company saw her… read more
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20. Manon Lescaut
By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None
4.42
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"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more
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21. Pure
By: Andrew Miller
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath … read more
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22. The Bridge on the Drina
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3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth… read more
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23. The Music of Chance
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3.94
Format: 322 pages,
In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fiftee… read more
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24. See What I Have Done
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4.04
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In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinati… read more
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25. The Book of Proper Names
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4.09
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"To have an extraordinary life, Lucette believes, one must have an extraordinary name. Horrified by… read more
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26. The Intuitionist
By: Colson Whitehead
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more
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27. The Unicorn
By: Iris Murdoch
3.64
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, sh… read more
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"Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"We are all mad sometimes, but it passes." "The consequences do not pass."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
". . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
28. The Whistling
By: Rebecca Netley
3.69
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more
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29. Watergate: A New History
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.49
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
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30. The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
By: Viorica Marian
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink One of Behavioral Scientist ’s Summer Books of 2023 One of Ne… read more
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31. I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To
By: Mikołaj Grynberg
4.43
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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