Songbirds
By: Christy Lefteri
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance …
Want to Read $ 13.99"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
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1. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
By: Deborah Rodriguez
3.67
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
2. 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
3. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
4. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
5. 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
- contemporary
- 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
6. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
7. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
8. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
9. All My Mothers
By: Joanna Glen
4.44
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers
10. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
11. Songbirds
By: Christy Lefteri
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
12. How to Kill Your Family
By: Bella Mackie
3.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
13. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
14. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
15. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
16. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
17. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
18. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
19. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. The Herd
By: Emily Edwards
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child. Elizabeth and Bryony are polar … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
21. The Figurine
By: Victoria Hislop
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
