Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into …
Want to Read $ 17.99"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
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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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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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 Dog of the North
By: Elizabeth Mckenzie
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North
3. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
5. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
6. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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
- contemporary
"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
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
9. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
11. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
12. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Laline Paull's Pod book and Laline Paull's Pod
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- animals
- environment
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- nature
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
14. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
15. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"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
16. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
17. 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
- fiction
18. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
19. 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
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
20. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
21. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult