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The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea

1 Reader

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

ByAdam Moss

14 Readers

The White Boy Shuffle

The White Boy Shuffle

ByPaul Beatty

1996 • 30 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Cassandra at the Wedding

Cassandra at the Wedding

ByDorothy Baker

1962 • 49 Readers • 265 pages • 4.1

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

ByAsako Yuzuki,Polly Barton(Translator)

2017 • 179 Readers • 464 pages • 3.8

The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

ByRobert Fritz

1989 • 18 Readers • 324 pages • 4.1

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Running

Normal Women

ByPhilippa Gregory

2023 • 1 Reader

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

ByNaomi Klein

2023 • 223 Readers • 333 pages • 4.4

A Singular Life. By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. / NOVEL /

A Singular Life. By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. / NOVEL /

ByElizabeth Stuart Phelps

2017 • 1 Reader • 164 pages

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday

ByStefan Zweig

1964 • 55 Readers • 494 pages • 4.8

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

ByJohn Ashbery

1975 • 13 Readers • 96 pages • 5

Timeskipper

ByStefano Benni,Antony Shugaar(Translator)

2001 • 3 Readers • 390 pages • 4

Between Two Seas

Between Two Seas

ByCarmine Abate

1 Reader

I Loved You for Your Voice

I Loved You for Your Voice

BySélim Nassib,Alison Anderson(Translator)

1994 • 1 Reader • 255 pages

In the Distance

In the Distance

ByHernan Diaz

2017 • 88 Readers • 273 pages • 4.1

The Life of the Mind

The Life of the Mind

ByChristine Smallwood

2021 • 23 Readers • 240 pages • 3.3

Us Fools

ByNora Lange

2024 • 3 Readers • 333 pages

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Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints

Harlequin Butterfly

Harlequin Butterfly

ByToh EnJoe,David Boyd(Translator)

2012 • 1 Reader • 113 pages

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

ByPhilip Ball

2023 • 23 Readers • 427 pages • 4

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2010 • 386 Readers • 571 pages • 4.2

The Details

ByIa Genberg

2022 • 74 Readers • 110 pages • 3.9

Utvandrarna

#1 of 4 in The Emigrants

ByVilhelm Moberg

1949 • 26 Readers • 366 pages • 4.4

ByRita Bullwinkel

2024 • 51 Readers • 225 pages • 3.6

Tackle!

ByJilly Cooper

2023

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

ByMaggie Mertens

2024 • 1 Reader

Concerning the Future of Souls

Concerning the Future of Souls

ByJoy Williams

2024 • 1 Reader • 114 pages

Pyre

ByPerumal Murugan,Aniruddhan Vasudevan(Translator)

2013 • 9 Readers • 200 pages • 5

Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

ByJennifer Grenz

2024 • 2 Readers • 281 pages

Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada

Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada

ByJane Philpott

2024 • 1 Reader • 282 pages

People Like Us

ByDominick Dunne

1988 • 6 Readers • 464 pages • 5

Hurts So Good

ByLeigh Cowart

2021 • 28 Readers • 237 pages • 3.8

Mood Swings

ByFrankie Barnet

2024 • 13 Readers • 306 pages • 4

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

ByMahmoud Darwish

1973 • 4 Readers • 175 pages

Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

BySue Halpern

1992 • 1 Reader • 225 pages

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

ByKatherine Morgan Schafler

2023 • 56 Readers • 353 pages • 4

The Next Right Thing

The Next Right Thing

ByDan Barden

2012 • 1 Reader

Larry McMurtry: A Life

Larry McMurtry: A Life

ByTracy Daugherty

3 Readers • 4.5

Four Squares

ByBobby Finger

2024 • 3 Readers • 337 pages • 4.5

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A Tiler's Afternoon

A Tiler's Afternoon

ByTom Geddes, Lars Gustafsson

1 Reader

Lesser Ruins

ByMark Haber

2024 • 2 Readers • 185 pages

An Ocean of Minutes

An Ocean of Minutes

ByThea Lim

2018 • 32 Readers • 3.7

Clear

ByCarys Davies

2024 • 67 Readers • 154 pages • 3.8

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

ByAnne de Marcken

2024 • 43 Readers • 128 pages • 4

Barbara Isn't Dying

Barbara Isn't Dying

ByAlina Bronsky,Tim Mohr(Translator)

2021 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Float Up, Sing Down

Float Up, Sing Down

ByLaird Hunt

2024 • 1 Reader

Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World

Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World

ByKatie Arnold

2024 • 1 Reader • 226 pages

The World My Wilderness

The World My Wilderness

ByRose Macaulay

1950 • 1 Reader

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

ByJohn Vaillant

2023 • 37 Readers • 432 pages • 4.4

The woman upstairs a novel

The woman upstairs a novel

ByClaire Messud

2013 • 26 Readers • 272 pages • 5

ByWilliam Brewer

4 Readers • 5

Bad Cree

ByJessica Johns

2023 • 142 Readers • 238 pages • 3.9

The Bear and the Nightingale

#1 of 3 in The Winternight Trilogy

The Bear and the Nightingale

ByKatherine Arden

2017 • 894 Readers • 1,235 pages • 4

The Children's Bach

The Children's Bach

ByHelen Garner

10 Readers • 3

I Hear You're Rich

I Hear You're Rich

ByDiane Williams

2023 • 5 Readers • 128 pages

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

ByClaire Dederer

2023 • 110 Readers • 289 pages • 4

The Atmospherians

The Atmospherians

ByAlex McElroy

2021 • 17 Readers • 304 pages • 3.7

All the Sinners Bleed

All the Sinners Bleed

ByS. A. Cosby

2023 • 273 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

The City of Brass

#1 of 3 in The Daevabad Trilogy

The City of Brass

ByS. A. Chakraborty

2017 • 986 Readers • 533 pages • 4

Dead in Long Beach, California

Dead in Long Beach, California

ByVenita Blackburn

2024 • 15 Readers • 2.8

The Anthropologists

The Anthropologists

ByAysegül Savas

2024 • 18 Readers • 135 pages • 3

The Extinction of Irena Rey

The Extinction of Irena Rey

ByJennifer Croft

2024 • 41 Readers • 4

Native Speaker

ByChang-rae Lee

1995 • 28 Readers • 386 pages • 3.3

Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders

ByGeraldine Brooks

2001 • 116 Readers • 308 pages • 3.6

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

ByR. F. Kuang

2002 • 2,402 Readers • 560 pages • 4.1

The Historian

ByElizabeth Kostova

2005 • 455 Readers • 3.7

A Life of One's Own

A Life of One's Own

ByMarion Milner

1934 • 9 Readers • 180 pages • 3.3

My Volcano

ByJohn Elizabeth Stintzi

2022 • 8 Readers • 330 pages • 2

Beast in the Shadows

Beast in the Shadows

ByEdogawa Rampo

2023 • 11 Readers • 91 pages • 3.2

Cold Mountain

ByCharles Frazier

1997 • 152 Readers • 438 pages • 3.7

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

BySuleika Jaouad

2021 • 150 Readers • 370 pages • 4.4

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

ByRobert M. Sapolsky

2017 • 335 Readers • 802 pages • 4.3

Kick the Latch

ByKathryn Scanlan

2022 • 12 Readers • 106 pages • 3.8

Love's Work

ByGillian Rose

1995 • 12 Readers • 144 pages • 4.5

Not a River

BySelva Almada,Annie McDermott(Translator)

2020 • 22 Readers • 99 pages • 4.3

Player Piano

ByKurt Vonnegut

1952 • 207 Readers • 342 pages • 3.8

Blood in the Machine

Blood in the Machine

ByBrian Merchant

2023 • 33 Readers • 550 pages • 4.5

The Hummingbird

The Hummingbird

BySandro Veronesi

2019 • 6 Readers • 304 pages

The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

ByDionne Brand

2018 • 248 pages

A Map to the Door of No Return

A Map to the Door of No Return

ByDionne Brand

2001 • 4 Readers • 240 pages • 5

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

ByIngrid Robeyns

2024 • 15 Readers • 194 pages • 3.2

Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

ByMatthew Desmond

2023 • 273 Readers • 305 pages • 4.1

Death Valley

ByMelissa Broder

2023 • 113 Readers • 232 pages • 3.4

The Pisces

ByMelissa Broder

2018 • 156 Readers • 280 pages • 3.3

How to Build a Boat

How to Build a Boat

ByElaine Feeney

2023 • 19 Readers • 220 pages • 3.8

Life and Fate

#2 of 2 in Stalingrad

ByVasily Grossman

1960 • 105 Readers • 884 pages • 4.3

Post-Growth Living

Post-Growth Living

ByKate Soper

23 Readers • 3.7

Sweet Days of Discipline

Sweet Days of Discipline

ByFleur Jaeggy,Tim Parks(Translator)

1989 • 38 Readers • 101 pages • 3.2

The Vaster Wilds

The Vaster Wilds

ByLauren Groff

2016 • 157 Readers • 273 pages • 4.1

Trespasses

ByLouise Kennedy

2022 • 93 Readers • 305 pages • 3.6

Hild

#1 of 2 in The Hild Sequence

ByNicola Griffith

2013 • 135 Readers • 559 pages • 4

...And Ladies of the Club

...And Ladies of the Club

ByHelen Hooven Santmyer

1982 • 20 Readers • 1,184 pages • 3.3

Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

ByBrad Listi

3 Readers • 216 pages • 5

The infatuations

The Infatuations

ByJavier Marías

2013 • 14 Readers • 345 pages • 3.9

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

ByMichael Finkel

2023 • 177 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

The Notebook

ByRoland Allen

2023 • 1 Reader

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

ByJoan Chase

1983 • 5 Readers • 275 pages • 5

The Long Form

ByKate Briggs

13 Readers • 4.5

The House of Doors

The House of Doors

ByTan Twan Eng

2023 • 81 Readers • 291 pages • 3.7