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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

4,4

(25,4K)
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and thei...
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The English Patient

Майкл Ондатже

3,6

(4,2K)
The international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned I...
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Two Brothers

Ben Elton

4,5

(6,3K)
Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewi...
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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

4

(23,9K)
From The Booker Prize-Winning Author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were stu...
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Purity

Jonathan Franzen

3,8

(2,9K)
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in ...
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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

4

(4,4K)
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease....
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Blind Faith

Ben Elton

4,1

(1K)
A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb. Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person “feels” an...
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The Help

Kathryn Stockett

4,7

(33K)
Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her s...
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The Handmaid's Tale

Маргарет Этвуд

3,8

(18,4K)
The seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author, soon to be a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Offred...
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The Art of Travel

Alain de Botton

3,7

(351)
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Pr...
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Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

3,8

(4,2K)
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The aff...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

4,3

(3K)
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teach...
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The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

3,7

(5,7K)
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in...
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The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

3,8

(1K)
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other th...
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The Children Act

Ian McEwan

4

(3,4K)
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-ol...
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Still Alice

Lisa Genova

4,5

(1,7K)
When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still ha...
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The Sellout

Paul Beatty

3,5

(334)
Named one of the best books of 2015 by "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Wall Street Journal" A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the ra...
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Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

3,5

(695)
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven y...
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Room

Emma Donoghue

4

(4,2K)
It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves...
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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

4,4

(4,7K)
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doct...
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