The Cave
by Jose Saramago | 
The Stone Raft
by Jose Saramago | 
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
by Jose Saramago |
Ben, in the World
by Doris Lessing | 
The Sibyl
by Par Lagerkvist | 
The Summer Before the Dark
by Doris Lessing | 
Blindness
by Jose Saramago | 
The Good Terrorist
by Doris Lessing | 
The Eighth Day
by Thornton Wilder | 
The Sunlight Dialogues
by John Gardner |
The Estate
by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 
Darkness Visible
by William Golding |
Baltasar and Blimunda
by Jose Saramago | 
The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt | 
Sundog
by Jim Harrison | 
The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh | 
Confess
by Colleen Hoover | 
The Silver Linings Playbook
by Matthew Quick | 
Normal People
by Sally Rooney |
When Never Comes
by Barbara Davis |
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor Jose sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.