The North Water by Ian McGuire
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Ficton
'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on ...Show more
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She ...Show more
Juja by Nino Haratischvili
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Sare, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others t ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Ficton
'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings MagazineWhat is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect.About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of millions, con man and ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Literary Ficton
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
Violeta: 'Storytelling at its best' - Woman & Home by Isabel Allende
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Category: Literary Ficton
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAILOne e ...Show more
The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch 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
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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Category: Literary Ficton
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori fo ...Show more