The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense
9 best books like The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense (Charlotte Brontë): The Children's Book, Archangel's War, Frankissstein: A Love Story, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, Quichotte, Lady Susan, The Princesse de Clèves, Cost, 魔法使いの嫁 10 [Mahou Tsukai no Yome 10]
Author | A.S. Byatt |
ISBN | 0307272095 |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals,...
Author | Nalini Singh |
ISBN | 0451491661 |
Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .
The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Author | Jeanette Winterson |
ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Author | Chelsea Handler |
ISBN | 1582346186 |
You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
Author | Jane Austen |
ISBN | 0486444074 |
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
O Lady Susan Vernon, what a juicy jewel of a villainous character you are, a black diamond, repelling and fascinating at the same time, your wicked charm inspiring possibly an uncanny form of envy more than simple revulsion. Deceiving everyone...
Author | Madame de La Fayette |
ISBN | 0192837265 |
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Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.
I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...
Author | Roxana Robinson |
ISBN | 0374271879 |
When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's...
魔法使いの嫁 10 [Mahou Tsukai no Yome 10]
Author | Kore Yamazaki |
ISBN | 4800007941 |
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We first meet Chise, chained by the neck and wrists being passed over to her new owner, a bone-headed mage whose name she learns later is Elias. A penniless orphan sold on the black market she learns about herself, the magical world filled...