Lampedusa
By: Steven Price
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, …
Want to Read $ 13.49"But it seemed to him the world was brighter, more intense, more alive than he had remembered. Colours were more vibrant, shimmering; the scents of ordinary things, wet pavement, bricks in sunlight, unripe peaches, felt layered and dizzyingly complex."-Steven Price, Lampedusa
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1. The Seventh Function of Language
By: Laurent Binet
3.76
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the p… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"The slalom race of syntax!"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"He liked cock, this intellectual!"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"The homosexuals are the new Jesuits."-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
"What would you do if you ruled the world?"-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language
2. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- italy
- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
3. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more
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4. A Perfect Spy
By: John Le Carré
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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5. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
6. Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca
By: Maria Grazia Calandrone
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
1965. Un uomo e una donna, dopo aver abbandonato nel parco di Villa Borghese la figlia di otto mesi… read more
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- audiobook
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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"...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. Tyll
By: Daniel Kehlmann
3.94
Format: 474 pages, Hardcover
Tyll, der neue Roman des Erfolgsautors Daniel Kehlmann – er veröffentlichte u.a. Die Vermessung der… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
"Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwi…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
9. Lampedusa
By: Steven Price
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, … read more
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- italy
- literary fiction
- canada
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
"But it seemed to him the world was brighter, more intense, more alive than he had remembered. Colours were more vibrant, shimmering; the scents of ordinary things, wet pavement, bricks in sunlight, u…"-Steven Price, Lampedusa
10. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
12. Fayne: A Novel
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
4.26
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel
13. The Key In The Lock
By: Beth Underdown
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hecti… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Manningtree Witches
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
""-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches
15. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
16. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
17. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
18. Limelight
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
19. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
By: Pandora Sykes
4.08
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
20. Dual Citizens: A novel
By: Alix Ohlin
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Following The Missing Person and Inside, Alix Ohlin's third novel is a masterful achievement: a joi… read more
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- canada
- literature
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- novels
- book club
- audiobook
21. A Novel Summer
By: Jamie Brenner
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of a quaint beach town bookshop … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
