Physical tbr - 2000-present
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2000
The Changeling
Kenzaburo Oe · 2010
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2002
Portrait in Sepia: A Novel
Isabel Allende · 2014
The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Margaret Atwood · 2007
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet. These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.
The Old Garden
Hwang Sok-yong · 2012
2002
Snow
Orhan Pamuk · 2011
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear (Penguin Modern Classics)
Javier Marías · 2018
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante · 2012
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2003
2003
Never Any End to Paris
Enrique Vila-Matas · 2011
2004
GraceLand
Chris Abani · 2021
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream (Penguin Modern Classics)
Javier Marías · 2018
2006
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2007
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel
Mo Yan · 2012
2007
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Penguin Modern Classics)
Javier Marías · 2018
'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer<br/>'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith<br/>The concluding part in Javier Marías' spy trilogy masterwork<br/>Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.
2008
Confessions
Kanae Minato · 2013
2009
Barley Patch
Gerald Murnane · 2009
The Hunger Angel
Herta Muller · 2013
2013
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014
2019
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Elif Shafak · 2019
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour<br/><br/>'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'<br/><br/>For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her. . .
Lanny: A Novel
Max Porter · 2020
An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma · 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Booker Prize 2019)
Evaristo Bernardine · 2020
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood<br/>Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.<br/>Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
