The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what …
Want to Read $ 9.48"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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1. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
By: Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles
2.00
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A madcap new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climb… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
2. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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3. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
4. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
5. Saint Richard Parker
By: Merlin Franco
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more
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- fiction
"See you later, tailgater."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Dark is beautiful, brother."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"A saint has control over his anger and itches."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
6. The Prophet and the Idiot
By: Jonas Jonasson
3.65
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
7. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- historical fiction
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8. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- queer
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
9. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- magical realism
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- fantasy
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"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
10. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
11. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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12. 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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- mystery
- literary fiction
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- audiobook
"...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
13. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
14. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- fiction
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
15. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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16. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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- fiction
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
17. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
18. Someone Else's Bucket List
By: Amy T. Matthews
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday
By: Namrata Patel
4.02
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more
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20. Last Tang Standing
By: Lauren Ho
3.52
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more
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- audiobook
"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing
21. The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
By: Jonas Jonasson
3.73
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of… read more
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"Οι ερευνητές είχαν διαπιστώσει μόλις ότι το μέσο επίπεδο νοημοσύνης είχε καθοδική πορεία. Ο Άλαν διάβασε πως αυτοί που ξόδευαν πολύ χρόνο στη μαύρη πλακέτα τους έχαναν την ικανότητα του διαλόγου. Η π…"-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
"Η ανθρώπινη λογική λειτουργούσε ως εξής: πάρα πολλοί θεωρούσαν εαυτούς εξτρεμιστές. Οσο οι Σουηδοί Δημοκράτες ήταν ό,τι πιο εξτρεμιστικό είχε να προσφέρει η Σουηδία, θα υπήρχαν πάντα αρκετοί που δε θ…"-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
