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by Elif Shafak
Published Jul 2025
Read ReviewsIn the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsA gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.
by Susanna Clarke
Published Sep 2021
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
by Richard Powers
Published Apr 2019
Read Reviews"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period."
—Ann Patchett
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.
by Haruki Murakami
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's - 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet.
by David Mitchell
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
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