Self-Discovery

Adult Fiction - Self-Discovery

Updated May 19, 2023
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My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A MAN CALLED OVE, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, this novel will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. 'A touching, sometimes funny,...
Darke
Gekoski, R. A.
Paper Book
Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive - he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers...
The library at the edge of the world : a novel
Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
Paper Book
Dirt road
Kelman, James
Paper Book
Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life Both are in search of something as they set out on an...
On the road : the original scroll
Kerouac, Jack
Paper Book
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his...
Beast : a novel
Kingsnorth, Paul
Paper Book
Beast plunges you into the world of a man alone in search of enlightenment. He faces an existential battle with himself, the elements, and with a creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.
The Fields : a novel
Maher, Kevin
Paper Book
I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral and everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now, though. Right at this moment. Here in this kitchen. And I wonder if it could've been different. Dublin, 1984: Ireland is a divided...
Solar bones
McCormack, Mike
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's...
Tuesday nights in 1980
Prentiss, Molly
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE One town. Three people. A single year that will change them all forever. Welcome to the seductive chaos of downtown New York Raul is an Argentinian painter, fresh on New York's downtown scene, about to...
The interestings
Wolitzer, Meg.
Paper Book
'Every summer we sit like this. We should call ourselves something.' Ash Wolf said. 'Why?' said Goodman, her older brother. 'So the whole world can know just how unbelievably interesting we are?' On a warm July night in 1974 six teenagers play at being cool...

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