A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Literary Ficton
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
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Category: Literary Ficton
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK "Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable."--The New York Times Book Review "A celebration of girls who dare to dream."--Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club pick)Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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Category: Literary Ficton
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
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Category: Literary Ficton
When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited 12 year old living in the rigid confines of a 17th-century English Puritan settlement, meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father, a Calvinist minister, tri ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
"The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Now a major film starring Tom Hanks. 'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail ... 'Rescued all those men ...Show more
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: good
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years ea ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationallly bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. In these eight stories, Haruki Murakami explores the world from his unique perspective. From the imaginative to the intimate, he moves from an altern ...Show more
Flames by Robbie Arnott
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Category: Literary Ficton
"A strange and joyous marvel" Richard FlanaganFor readers of Jennifer Egan, Evie Wyld, Sara Baume and David Szalay.Robbie Arnott's mad, wild debut novel is rough-hewn from the Tasmanian landscape and imbued with the folkloric magic of the oldest fireside storytellers.A young man named Levi McAllister de ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: A Key To All Mythologies 1 | Reading Level: very good
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads – the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies – is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years A Daily M ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Mark Haddon's bestselling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is an unusual detective story written from the perspective of an autistic boy. Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock ...Show more