The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va…
Want to Read $ 11.99"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
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1. Pachinko
By: Min Jin Lee
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealth… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
"A woman’s lot is to suffer."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"No one is clean. Living makes you dirty."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Life makes you pay...everybody pays something"-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
2. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
3. Mornings in Jenin
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did fo… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
4. Confederates
By: Thomas Keneally
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Unknown Binding
Thomas Keneally's epic of the Civil War takes us into the lives of four remarkable characters in th… read more
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5. Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and alon… read more
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6. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
7. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
9. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
10. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
11. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
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12. La portalettere
By: Francesca Giannone
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma ne… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Si diresse in cucina, aspettandosi che Anna la seguisse per aiutarla. Invece vide che scostava la sedia e si accomodava. Roba da matti, pensò allora, scuotendo il capo. Se c'era un'altra donna tra i …"-Francesca Giannone, La portalettere
13. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
14. The Island of Sea Women
By: Lisa See
4.31
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501154850 Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Se… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"You should be more careful out there,"-Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women
"Who can name a death that was not tragic?"-Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women
"How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?"-Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women
"You aren't aware your clothes are getting wet in the rain."-Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women
15. The Island of Missing Trees
By: Elif Shafak
4.15
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the B… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
16. Stacken
By: Annika Norlin
4.16
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more
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- fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
17. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
18. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"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
19. The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
20. Jävla karlar
By: Andrev Walden
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
21. 23 Minutos
By: Waldson Souza
3.55
Format: 224 pages, None
E se a dor da morte fosse realmente um prelúdio do fim? Hugo leva uma vida tranquila na cidade d… read more
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22. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
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- adult
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"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
23. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- historical
- war
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- historical fiction
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24. De fenomenala fruntimren på Grand Hôtel
By: Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
4.16
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
I början av 1900-talet är Stockholm en stad i förändring. Medan rika drömmer om större bostäder med… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
25. Fresh Water for Flowers
By: Valérie Perrin
4.27
Format: 476 pages, Hardcover
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, re… read more
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- literary fiction
- book club
- fiction
- audiobook
"To be loved is to stay young."-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
"The day someone loves you, the weather's marvelous."-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
"Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow."-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
"As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel."-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
26. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
27. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
28. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
29. Folk som sår i snö
By: Tina Harnesk
3.86
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Ingen ska komma och berätta för Máriddja när hon ska dö och ingen kan dra ur 85-åringen sanningen o… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
30. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
31. The Other Princess
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.99
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more
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- historical
- fiction
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