FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[issybird]

Originally Posted by CaffeineAbuser

Today's Big Deal at Amazon UK is the first 8 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, at £0.99 each. Numbers 1-5 have been this price before. Not sure about numbers 6-8. (The covers are different but the URLs seem to be the same.)

(Sorry, less than 2 hours left. Thought this had been posted already but cannot find it).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_ac...rd_i=341677031

These are absolutely fantastic books and a steal at that price. Even if you’re not sure they’re your thing, I’d suggest blowing three quid on the first three. I personally for years didn’t think they were for me, until a friend essentially forced me to agree to try them. Thank you, Lauren!

[ZodWallop]

A Son of the Circus by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I haven't read A Son of the Circus yet, but have greatly enjoyed the other John Irving books I've read.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A Son of the Circus by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I haven't read A Son of the Circus yet, but have greatly enjoyed the other John Irving books I've read.

John Irving is an incredible writer. Full immersion in his stories, along with wonderful characters and situations.

[tch65721]

A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VE6TCW

[salty-horse]

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is $2 on Amazon.com
Wanted to read this since watching Park Chan-wook's film adaptation The Handmaiden.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.

One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.

With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.

[ZodWallop]

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.

Turned into a very good movie called Simon Birch. (Irving thought the book would make a terrible movie, so he asked them to change the name. He came up with the name Simon Birch for them.)

[ZodWallop]

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented

Named One of Paste’s Best Novels of the Decade • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of Time’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book • One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the Year

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.

From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?

[ZodWallop]

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."

Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose.

[tch65721]

Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QCQ9O8

“A tour de force.... Every bit as affecting as it is gripping.” —The New York Times“Lush, detailed, vibrantly colored and intense.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.” —John Updike, The New Yorker“Luminous.... Atonement is brilliant.” —Newsweek“No one now writing fiction in the English language surpasses Ian McEwan.” —The Washington Post Book World“McEwan could be the most psychologically astute writer working today, our era’s Jane Austen.” —Esquire

[gunbad]

“Great Circle: A novel” by Maggie Shipstead is $1.99 at AmazonUS.

[Tarana]

Sharpe’s Assassin By Bernard Cornwell $2.99 Amazon, B&N and Kobo
Historical Fiction - military
Excellent series!!!

[gunbad]

War Lord: A Novel (Saxon Tales Book 13) by Bernard Cornwell $2.99 AmazonUS

Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen $1.99 AmazonUS

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A Son of the Circus by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I haven't read A Son of the Circus yet, but have greatly enjoyed the other John Irving books I've read.

I'm an easy touch for circus and carnival books. Will have a look!

[ZodWallop]

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry is $2.99

It's called a trilogy, but really these are three unrelated books set in the same fictional Texas town of Thalia:
Horseman, Pass By (1961) - (Filmed as HUD)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
The Last Picture Show (1966)

I've only read The Last Picture Show so far, but would recommend it.

[sufue]

And discountable at Kobo, and "Partners22" still works, so $1.79 there, or even less if you have Kobo VIP, which does stack with the coupon code: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thalia-a-texas-trilogy

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by Larry McMurtry is $2.99

It's called a trilogy, but really these are three unrelated books set in the same fictional Texas town of Thalia:
Horseman, Pass By (1961) - (Filmed as HUD)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
The Last Picture Show (1966)

I've only read The Last Picture Show so far, but would recommend it.