BOOKS WE LOVE
This is a selection of books one, many or all of us at VIVA have read and absolutely love. We change this list often as we will read a new book and simply have to have it on our list.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
The Wolf and the Woodsman: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Ava Reid
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
A dark, evocative fantasy debut steeped in Hungarian folklore, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Katherine Arden and Laini Taylor.Stories don't have to be true to be real...When the Woodsmen come to claim a sacrifice, vike has little fear that she will be chosen. As the only girl in her isolated pagan vi ...Show more
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer--and the reason we make ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep' NEW YORK TIMES 'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Pa ...Show more
Go as a River [The powerful Sunday Times bestseller] by Shelley Read
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
An epic story of self-discovery and becoming, set against the magnificent and breathtaking landscape of mid-century Colorado. When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life? GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget. ___ ...Show more
Mr Einstein's Secretary by Matthew Reilly
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHER IN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARS All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a scientist, a secretary, a ...Show more
Trust by Hernán Diaz / Hernan Diaz
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder -- a vocation ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more