Tired of diving into modern bestsellers only to find yourself questioning the hype? Join the club. I've been there, done that – the disappointment is real. But fear not, fellow skeptics! This selection of modern books is here to restore your faith in...
“When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.”
Circe, Madeline Miller
“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it.”
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
The Neapolitan Novels set, Elena Ferrante
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that...
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backamn
“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable."
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts, and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all.”
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam Joo
“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys
“They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth.”
The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa
“Do you ever wonder if you’ve lived the life you were meant to?”
When I Was Invisible, Dorothy Koomson
“In the end, what matters is this: I survived.”
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
"We must do what we can to me d our lives, we owe that to ourselves - but we need to be careful not to break other while achieving that."
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.
