The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Literature | Series: Plus Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The 25th anniversary edition of The Pilgrimage, the precursor to The Alchemist. In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery. Guided by his mysterious companion Petrus, he takes the road to Santiago, going throush a series of trial ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its ...Show more
Now That I See You by Emma Batchelor
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Category: Literature
In those first moments, that admission felt precious to me: it was something that I alone had been deemed worthy enough to carry and I was grateful. I was grateful to finally know, but I still couldn't speak. Something was wrong, she knew it, but she was entirely unprepared for what he would tell her. ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent pa ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious ...Show more
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborh ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
Parable of the Talents (#2 Parable of the Sower) by Octavia E. Butler
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Category: Literature | Series: Earthseed 2 | Reading Level: very good
This sequel to Parable of the Sower by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale or couldn't put down The Power, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. 'In the ongoing contest over whic ...Show more
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
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Category: Literature
Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the ...Show more
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more