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What if all Palestinians vanished from their homeland overnight?

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In 1980s’ Réunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life,
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A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman’s Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life…
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A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.  A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Haile…
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In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, t…
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
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From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of …
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
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· 3403 Ratings
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Publi…
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Eurotrash
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»I’ll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer.

»Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage nach Zürich. Es war ganz schrecklich. Aus Nervosität darüber hatte ich mich das gesamte verlängerte Wochene…
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Perfection
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Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They h…
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Universality
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Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power.

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young m…
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Hunchback
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A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a provocative, defiant debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life.

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Reservoir Bitches
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A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.

Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.

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On the Calculation of Volume I
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Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd Novembe…
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One Boat
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· 689 Ratings
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself…
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The South
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· 1237 Ratings
A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw.

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Endling
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Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick biologist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge …
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Misinterpretation
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 “Xhoga writes with sly, benign wit. Read this novel.”—Tom Grimes

In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his th…
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Love Forms
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· 841 Ratings
A heart-stirring novel about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was a teenager growing up in the Caribbean, from the prize-winnin…
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The Land in Winter
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December 1962, a small village near Bristol.

Eric and Irene and Bill and Rita. Two young couples living next to each other, the first in a beautiful cottage - suitable for a newly appointed local doct…
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On the Calculation of Volume II
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· 1864 Ratings
Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

The first year of November eighteenth …
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The Persians
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· 1967 Ratings
Named a most anticipated book by Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, The BBC, Daily Mail (London), and more

A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious I…
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