All Our Names
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
All Our Namesis the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from…
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1. Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Discontent and Its Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid traces the fracture lines generated by a decade a… read more
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"The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television…"-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
"In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and p…"-Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
2. Spirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more
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- fiction
3. The Long Song
By: Andrea Levy
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Man Booker Prize Nominee (2010) You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
4. Atticus
By: Ron Hansen
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suic… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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5. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Funny Boy
By: Shyam Selvadurai
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more
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- fiction
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7. Baking Cakes in Kigali
By: Gaile Parkin
4.73
Format: None pages,
Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity,… read more
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- contemporary
8. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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- contemporary
9. Last Night at the Lobster
By: Stewart O'Nan
3.59
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its num… read more
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- contemporary
10. The March
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Made for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extreme… read more
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12. All Our Names
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
All Our Namesis the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- ethiopia
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- african literature
13. Foreign Gods, Inc.
By: Okey Ndibe
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is… read more
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14. The Pilo Family Circus
By: Will Elliott , Katherine Dunn
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ai… read more
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15. History of Wolves
By: Emily Fridlund
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more
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16. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- contemporary
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
17. Was ich nie gesagt habe: Gretchens Schicksalsfamilie
By: Susanne Abel
4.40
Format: 561 pages, Kindle Edition
Tom Monderath ist frisch verliebt: Mit Jenny erlebt er die glücklichste Zeit seines Lebens. Bis er … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Shadow King
By: Maaza Mengiste
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- ethiopia
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- historical fiction
- african literature
"The routine dulls the terror."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"He holds no importance except what memory allows."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
19. The Cockroach
By: Ian McEwan
3.26
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more
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20. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- fiction
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
21. Out of Darkness, Shining Light
By: Petina Gappah
3.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
“This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, David Living… read more
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