Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
Crook Manifesto: Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Harlem Shuffle 2 | Reading Level: near fine
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on t ...Show more
11.22.63 by Stephen King
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Category: Contemporary
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a ...Show more
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 by Richard Osman
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Thursday Murder Club Ser.
'The rightful king of crime' i News'Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet' TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.As the gang springs into action they encounter art ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
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Category: Contemporary
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believ ...Show more
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
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Category: Contemporary
Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out. Robert James, wealthy and in ...Show more
High Time: High Stakes and High Jinx in the World of Art and Finance by Hannah Rothschild
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Category: Contemporary
She wants revenge... she just doesn't know it yet Ayesha has been married to the ruthless, aspirational Thomlinson Sleet for nearly 10 years: the longest any wife of his has lasted. He bought her family home, the beautiful house in Cornwall that was about to be lost to them, and she's forever been in h ...Show more
Weyward by Emilia Hart
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Category: Contemporary
KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing tree ...Show more
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
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Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fasci ...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