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 …
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1. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
2. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
3. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
4. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"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
5. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
6. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
7. 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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- literature
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- asia
- war
- india
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- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
8. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
9. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
10. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
11. 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
- 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
12. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"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
14. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- fiction
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
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
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- 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. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- historical
- asia
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17. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
18. The Blue, Beautiful World
By: Karen Lord
3.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
As first contact transforms the Earth, a group of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. A Trace of Sun
By: Pam Williams
3.73
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more
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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
21. 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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- literature
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- war
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"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
