The Western Wind
By: Samantha Harvey
3.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man …
Want to Read $ 9.99"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and that?"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
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1. The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
By: Olivia Manning
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Guy and Harriet Pringle, newly married, arrive in Bucharest in the autumn of 1939. The city they fi… read more
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- british literature
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- historical fiction
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"Great fear can cast love out."-Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
"[T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded."-Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
"A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances."-Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
"She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours."-Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy, #1)
2. Glamorous Powers (Starbridge, #2)
By: Susan Howatch
4.19
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a … read more
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- british literature
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3. The Orchard: A Memoir
By: Theresa Weir
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm … read more
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- audiobook
4. Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
By: Marc Morris
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandon… read more
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- historical
- medieval
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5. The Outcasts of Time
By: Ian Mortimer
4.35
Format: 104 pages,
The year is 1348 and brothers John and William have been infected by the plague. Their fate is seal… read more
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- audiobook
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6. Beyond Black
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more
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7. 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
- audiobook
"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
8. The Western Wind
By: Samantha Harvey
3.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
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- mystery
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- crime
- audiobook
"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and …"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
9. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel… read more
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10. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
11. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
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- mystery
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- crime
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
12. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- literary fiction
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
13. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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14. 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
- british literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
"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
15. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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- historical
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- crime
16. The Leviathan
By: Rosie Andrews
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more
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- mystery
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan
17. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
18. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis
By: Conor Niland
4.38
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more
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19. Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
By: Andrew Miller
3.89
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller,… read more
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20. Lesser Islands
By: Lorenza Pieri
3.75
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio… read more
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21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
