When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
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Category: Literary Ficton
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
The Seventh Son (PB) by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Contemporary Fiction
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
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Category: Literary Ficton
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . . ' George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Bla ...Show more
Bodies of Light: Winner of the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Jennifer Down
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Category: Literary Ficton
WINNER OF THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2022Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022Shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2022Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awar ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Old God's Time: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 by Sebastian Barry
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Category: Literary Ficton
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
Farewell to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
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Category: Literary Ficton
The new and final novel in the bestselling Little Coffee Shop series.KABUL, AUGUST 2021Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she's thrilled to reunite with her Kabul 'family'.Yazmina now runs a pair of women's shelters from the old cafe, and dreams of a bright future f ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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Category: Literary Ficton
"Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." --Andrew Martin, The New York Times"A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" --Damian Flanagan, The Japan TimesA complete ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more