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An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 633 ratings — published 2016
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 606,232 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,473,209 ratings — published 1969
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 266,313 ratings — published 2004
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 248,053 ratings — published 2010
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 197,839 ratings — published 2000
People We Meet on Vacation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,588,968 ratings — published 2021
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,853,101 ratings — published 2003
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.85 — 326,638 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 328,981 ratings — published 2015
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 322,824 ratings — published 1997
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,374,426 ratings — published 2014
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 100,662 ratings — published 1996
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 882,821 ratings — published 1961
Wolf in White Van (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 25,795 ratings — published 2014
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 285,834 ratings — published 2003
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 195,001 ratings — published 1929
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 728,010 ratings — published 2024
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 474,534 ratings — published 2018
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 194,492 ratings — published 2020
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 486,547 ratings — published 1987
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 717,477 ratings — published 2017
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 208,971 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 842,240 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,950,282 ratings — published 2014
The Hours (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 148,257 ratings — published 1998
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,089,620 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,389,602 ratings — published 1985
Wild Dark Shore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 233,855 ratings — published 2025
Poor Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 41,080 ratings — published 1992
Butter Honey Pig Bread (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 13,192 ratings — published 2020
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,165,573 ratings — published 2019
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 65,599 ratings — published 2019
Underworld (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 33,628 ratings — published 1997
Husbands & Lovers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 91,240 ratings — published 2024
The Dinner (ebook)
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avg rating 3.21 — 174,700 ratings — published 2009
Truly Madly Guilty (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 315,879 ratings — published 2016
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 110,729 ratings — published 1979
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,470,429 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 96,205 ratings — published 1972
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,532,364 ratings — published 2016
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 80,735 ratings — published 1953
Landline (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 171,510 ratings — published 2014
This Time Next Year (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 106,168 ratings — published 2020
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 165,497 ratings — published 2019
Freshwater (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 36,397 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 67,668 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,570,720 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 796,967 ratings — published 2016
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 80,248 ratings — published 1974
“In light of my distanced telescopic exposure to the mayhem, I refused to plagiarise others’ personal tragedies as my own. There is an authorship in misery that costs more than empathy. Often I’d found myself dumbstruck in failed attempts to simulate that particular unfamiliar dolour. After all, no one takes pleasure in being possessed by a wailing father collecting the decapitated head of his innocent six year old. Even on the hinge of a willing attempt at full empathy with those cursed with such catastrophes, one had to have a superhuman emotional powers. I could not, in any way, claim the ability to relate to those who have been forced to swallow the never-ending bitter and poisonous pills of our inherited misfortune. Yet that excruciating pain in my chest seemed to elicit a state of agony in me, even from far behind the telescope. It could have been my tribal gene amplified by the ripple effect of the falling, moving in me what was left of my humanity.”
― An Ishmael of Syria
― An Ishmael of Syria
“As a citizen of the world, it’s my instinct to keep the fallen and the suffering in my thoughts... You see, in my mind there is logic to it: do no harm, prevent harm, help, support, care for the harmed, face the harmer. My stupid idealist conscience considers sympathy, not pity, at its worst, the most basic and the least negotiable civil duty. Of course as a citizen of the world, I should strive to do more. That said, I am only a man and so I often do the least.”
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