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.
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
22.99 AUD
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 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
Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens, Mark Owens
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand ...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
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings by Emma Carey
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
An extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundreds of thousands online to live life to the fullest and remind us that if we can, we must. Ther ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: near fine
Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: ...Show more