The New Wilderness
By: Diane Cook
3.68
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and…
Want to Read $ 3.99"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, stopped breathing. She felt it being suffocated. She almost yelped, leapt up to run away. She hated it. "Okay", Celeste said, "go like this." Agnes opened her eyes, saw Celeste blowing on her own hands, and looked down. The pink was catching light she hadn't even know was present in the dark forest. It looked as thought it moved on her nail, breathed more and more color into itself. She saw the speckles of glitter, not too much, just enough. It was alive, and perfect."-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, stopped breathing. She felt it being suffocated. She almost yelped, leapt up to run away. She hated it. "Okay", Celeste said, "go like this." Agnes opened her eyes, saw Celeste blowing on her own hands, and looked down. The pink was catching light she hadn't even know was present in the dark forest. It looked as thought it moved on her nail, breathed more and more color into itself. She saw the speckles of glitter, not too much, just enough. It was alive, and perfect."-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
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1. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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3. Blue Ticket
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken… read more
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"I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of."-Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket
4. 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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"...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
5. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
6. The Long Take
By: Robin Robertson
3.83
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy land… read more
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7. The New Wilderness
By: Diane Cook
3.68
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and… read more
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"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, sto…"-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
8. 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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"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
9. The Wall
By: John Lanchester
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more
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"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
10. The Hopkins Manuscript
By: R.C. Sherriff
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more
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11. Píseň L.
By: Veronika Opatřilová
4.42
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Šlechtický sirotek na anglickém středověkém hrabství má život předem nalinkovaný: Odejde do klášter… read more
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12. The Last Storm
By: Tim Lebbon
3.57
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping road trip through post-apocalyptic America from Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestseller an… read more
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13. Eden
By: Tim Lebbon
3.42
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Silence comes a brand-new supernatural eco thriller. In large ar… read more
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14. The Collector
By: Laura Kat Young
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A frightening dystopian horror novel where grief is forbidden and purged from the mind – a nightmar… read more
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15. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
16. Salt Lick
By: Lulu Allison
3.66
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more
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17. My Name is Monster
By: Katie Hale
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, M… read more
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"…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I found that thinking was easier when there was someone to talk at."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
"I say my story starts here because endings are always a kind of beginning."-Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
18. The Last Woman in the World
By: Inga Simpson
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remar… read more
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19. The Forcing
By: Paul E. Hardisty
3.90
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Lured by rumours of tropical sanctuary, a disparate group of men and women escape their inhospitabl… read more
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20. What Survives
By: M. Amelia Eikli
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
After a devastating global pandemic, the world has gone quiet. She hasn’t seen another living soul … read more
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21. The Last Good Man
By: Thomas McMullan
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, whe… read more
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