The Heavens
By: Sandra Newman
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, …
Want to Read $ 9.49"It was as if they had never been apart."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"It was as if they had never been apart."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"She could hide in this small, dull life."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"She could hide in this small, dull life."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
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1. All Together Now
By: Gill Hornby
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. Downtown is deserted, businesses are closing, and the id… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. About Time: 12 Short Stories
By: Jack Finney
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
About Timeoffers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguishe… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- time travel
3. The Thursday Friend
By: Catherine Cookson
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. Howev… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
5. The Heavens
By: Sandra Newman
3.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, … read more
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- literary fiction
- time travel
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
"It was as if they had never been apart."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"She could hide in this small, dull life."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"But this was reality, occluded and delicate."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
"It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past."-Sandra Newman, The Heavens
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- novels
7. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"...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
8. 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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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
9. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
10. The Candy House
By: Jennifer Egan
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
11. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Sea of Tranquility
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more
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- literary fiction
- time travel
- fiction
- historical fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. Meduze žive zauvek dok ih ne uhvate
By: Nadja Petrović
3.81
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Sara na svirci ima susret sa osobom iz prošlosti koja nosi ribu u rancu, riba oživi i ugrize je za … read more
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16. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
17. Devojačka soba
By: Stevan Vraneš
3.69
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
Kada po prvi put, nakon mnogo godina, dođe iz Toronta u Beograd, glavni junak romana Aleksandar pok… read more
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18. Knjiga za Maju
By: Marko Tomaš
3.74
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
Knjiga za Maju je Tomaševa prozna knjiga nemira, raspadanja i pokušaja objedinjavanja bića, što zna… read more
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19. The Sleep Watcher
By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'That summer, my mind separated from my body as completely as an egg cracked from its shell. The sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Road to the Stars
By: Yuri Gagarin
3.72
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The autobiography of the first cosmonaut. read more
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21. Making It
By: Laura Kay
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of Wild Things comes a heartwarming and relatable queer rom-com about an isolated y… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
