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Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
by book_guy  • 
5 in common: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering heights and 3 more
The drawing rooms have accounts to settle. These Victorian novels follow money through marriages, inheritances, jobs and households, exposing the distance between respectable appearances and...
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Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
by book_guy  • 
6 in common: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice and 4 more
A return visit can move your sympathies, reveal a pattern or make a once-minor conversation feel central. These novels offer particular reasons to read again, from Austen's social misreadings to...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
9 in common: To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol and 7 more
Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Brave New World and Animal Farm
Power rarely introduces itself as self-interest. It arrives as procedure, expertise, efficiency, tradition or a remarkably persuasive statement of the public good. These 25 novels make those...
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Modernist Novels That Give You a Way In
Modernist Novels That Give You a Way In
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Passing and Mrs. Dalloway
A change of viewpoint or time can become easier to follow when you know what to hold onto. These novels and novellas offer concrete routes into modernist writing: a household, a day, a journey, a...
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Books With Endings That Stay With You
Books With Endings That Stay With You
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Of Mice and Men and THE GREAT GATSBY
Some endings close a plot; others change the weight of everything that came before. These novels, novellas and one story collection earn their place through emotional accumulation, moral...
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Debut Novels With a Voice of Their Own
Debut Novels With a Voice of Their Own
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Things Fall Apart and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
A first novel can make its own rules about how a story should sound. These debuts offer comic abundance, compressed observation, lyric intimacy and sentences that take time to learn. The interest...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Wuthering heights and Mrs. Dalloway
A street can divide neighbours, a river can carry a family history, and a new route can change what a landscape is for. These 30 novels give place that kind of consequence. Their settings shape...
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Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Awakening
Meet the nineteenth century through Brazilian tenements, Shanghai courtesan houses, colonial Philippine institutions, Warsaw commerce, South African farm life and other distinctive social worlds...
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Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
by book_guy  • 
In common: Animal Farm
If films, podcasts and a good conversation usually win your attention, start with the kind of experience you already enjoy. These books offer an immediate voice, a compelling question or pictures...
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Very Long Novels That Earn Their Length
Very Long Novels That Earn Their Length
by book_guy  • 
In common: Middlemarch
A long novel earns its space when time changes what its people and places mean. These 25 books build families, neighbourhoods, institutions or whole systems of thought through accumulation. Some...
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One-Day Novels That Make a Small Span Feel Vast
One-Day Novels That Make a Small Span Feel Vast
by book_guy  • 
In common: Mrs. Dalloway
A day's errands, a night's wandering or even an escalator ride can hold far more life than the clock suggests. These novels and novellas concentrate their main present action around one day or one...
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Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
by book_guy  • 
In common: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
A letter has an intended reader; a diary has a keeper; a case file has someone who selected the evidence. These novels and novellas make those facts matter. Some unfold entirely through...
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Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
by book_guy  • 
In common: Animal Farm
A short novel can leave a much larger world behind it. These complete novels and novellas earn their place through a memorable voice, moral pressure or an ending that changes the meaning of what...
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Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
by book_guy  • 
In common: THE GREAT GATSBY
Some novels earn another page because of the person apparently speaking it. These choices favour distinctive rhythms, obsessions, evasions and ways of addressing a listener, from intimate...
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Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
by book_guy  • 
In common: THE GREAT GATSBY
A persuasive voice can give you reasons to keep listening and reasons to keep checking. These books make that double attention rewarding through selective memory, self-defence, social ambition and...
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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
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Cosy Fantasy for People Who Still Want a Story
Cosy Fantasy for People Who Still Want a Story
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Warmth is more satisfying when the characters have something to work out. These 25 fantasies give friendship, useful work and making a home a real direction: a business must survive, a skill must...
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