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  • THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER
    THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books and evokes ...
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    Q. 160

  • THE ONLY STORY
    THE ONLY STORY
    JULIAN BARNES
    Most of us have only one story to tell . . . only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine.One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married...
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    Q. 170

  • THE KING'S CURSE
    THE KING'S CURSE
    GREGORY, PHILIPPA
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England.As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the King’s mother, the Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor claim to the throne. She is buried in m...
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    Q. 190

  • DEAR MRS. BIRD: A NOVEL
    DEAR MRS. BIRD: A NOVEL
    PEARCE, A.J.
    This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is “a jaunty, heartbreaking winner” (People)—for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are doing their bit for the war ef...
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    Q. 180

  • A DOG'S WAY HOME MOVIE TIE-IN: A NOVEL
    A DOG'S WAY HOME MOVIE TIE-IN: A NOVEL
    CAMERON, W. BRUCE
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!The beloved New York Times and USA Today bestseller A Dog's Way Home is now a feature film from Sony Pictures! This remarkable story of one endearing dog's journey home after she is separated from her beloved human is directed by Charles Martin Smith and stars Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Wes Studi, Alexandra Shipp, and Jonah Hauer-King. W. Bruce ...
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    Q. 110

  • QUICHOTTE
    QUICHOTTE
    SALMAN RUSHDIE
    Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where...
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    Q. 265

  • DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT
    DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT
    LUCY ELLMANN
    WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZENOMINATED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALBaking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of o...
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    Q. 235

  • GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER: A NOVEL (BOOKER PRIZE WINNER)
    GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER: A NOVEL (BOOKER PRIZE WINNER)
    BERNARDINE EVARISTO
    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE"A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away...
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    Q. 180

  • NORMAL PEOPLE
    NORMAL PEOPLE
    ROONEY, SALLY
    "Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heartbreaking with more depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves."--Stephanie DanlerConnell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation--awkward but electrifying--something lif...
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    Q. 180

  • THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
    THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
    CAMUS, ALBERT
    A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide--the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Al...
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    Q. 170

  • DISOBEDIENCE
    DISOBEDIENCE
    NAOMI ALDERMAN
    When a young photographer living in New York learns that her estranged father, a well-respected rabbi, has died, she can no longer run away from the truth, and soon sets out for the Orthodox Jewish community in London where she grew up.Back for the first time in years, Ronit can feel the disapproving eyes of the community. Especially those of her beloved cousin, Dovid, her fath...
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    Q. 170

  • THE FIRM
    THE FIRM
    GRISHAM, JOHN
    When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray–doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail–already knew: You never get nothing for ...
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    Q. 120

  • TIMING
    TIMING
    ROD MEZA
    If you were able to go back in time, where would you go first? ...
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    Q. 250

  • ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
    ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
    VUONG, OCEAN
    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable ...
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    Q. 140

  • MAD HONEY
    MAD HONEY
    PICOULT, JODI / JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the strength that love and acceptance require.”—The Washington Post GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • PEOPLE’S BOOK OF THE WEEK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...
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    Q. 190

  • REMAINDERS OF THE DAY
    REMAINDERS OF THE DAY
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    "The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops...
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    Q. 250

  • SORROW AND BLISS
    SORROW AND BLISS
    MEG MASON
    Winner of the Book of the Year (Fiction) at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction"Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." -- Ann PatchettThe internationally bestselling, compulsively readable n...
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    Q. 200

  • AFTER I DO
    AFTER I DO
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo “A seductive twist on the timeless tale of a couple trying to rediscover love in a marriage brought low by the challenges of domestic togetherness…touching, perceptive, and achingly honest.” —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling authorWhen Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking poin...
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    Q. 210

  • INTERMEZZO
    INTERMEZZO
    ROONEY, SALLY
    An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep...
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    Q. 140

  • THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP
    THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP
    MAI MOCHIZUKI / JESSE KIRKWOOD
    Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars.“Mochizuki dazzles in her beautifully crafted contemporary fantasy debut. . . . This gentle fantasy is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one da...
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    Q. 200

  • IN COLD BLOOD
    IN COLD BLOOD
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, h...
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    Q. 190

  • THE ROAD
    THE ROAD
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    Even within the author's extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread.McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, 2005, etc.) pushes his thematic obsessions to their extremes in a parable that reads like Night of the Living Dead as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. Where much of McCarthy's fiction has been set in the recent past ...
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    Q. 110

  • KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary ...
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    Q. 110

  • WORLD WITHOUT END
    WORLD WITHOUT END
    FOLLETT KEN
    On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will tr...
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    Q. 120

  • ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
    ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
    KEN KESEY
    This guide to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" aims to help students understand the structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. Kesey's novel challenges the preconceived ideas of what constitutes sanity and insanity. ...
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    Q. 120

  • THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    AUSTER, PAUL
    "One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own...
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    Q. 180

  • GIRL, INTERRUPTED
    GIRL, INTERRUPTED
    SUSANNA KAYSEN
    In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treat...
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    Q. 120

  • ON THE ROAD
    ON THE ROAD
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road ...
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    Q. 190

  • FACTOTUM
    FACTOTUM
    BUKOWSKI, CHARLES
    One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into...
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    Q. 180

  • HOLLYWOOD
    HOLLYWOOD
    BUKOWSKI, CHARLES
    Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry. ...
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    Q. 190