Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER CLAY. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching crea ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
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Category: Contemporary
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days ...Show more
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
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Category: Contemporary
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unli ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Contemporary
Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined; when, following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ev ...Show more
Skippy Dies: From the author of The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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Category: Contemporary
'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair.' And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweigh ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
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Category: Contemporary
Forecast: Turbulence is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic cast of characters - a loner obsessed with the beautiful face of a neighbour; a militant religious cult; the mute skippe ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. ...Show more
The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 12+
Meet twelve-year-old Liam McKenzie, who patrols his suburban neighbourhood as the Masked Avenger - a superhero with powers so potent not even he can fully comprehend their extent. Along with his sidekick, Richie the Powerbeagle, he protects the people of Franklin Street from chaos, mayhem, evil and low ...Show more