NYT's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. See the whole list here.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ...Show more
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
22.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the 2019 Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you l ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair--and rage--is "a masterpiece" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman's experiences after being suddenly left by her husband ...Show more
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. F ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
24.35 AUD
Category: No Category
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Category: Fiction
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - bo ...Show more
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
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Category: Non-Fiction
Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crowis such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence--violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decom ...Show more
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of ...Show more
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Original...witty...playfulaa wonderfully funny book' James Wood'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' Mark Haddon'A triumph - a genuinely new story' A. S. Byatt'Destined to become a classic' Garth Risk HallbergEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised sin ...Show more