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Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
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2 in common: To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway
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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Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Passing and Mrs. Dalloway
A familiar school text can become a different reading experience when there is time to hear its jokes, follow its suspense and recognise the compromises its people make. These choices offer ways...
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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
by book_guy  • 
In common: As I Lay Dying
A change of speaker can change what counts as the problem. These novels give different accounts and perspectives room to expose conflicting loyalties, private needs and unequal power. Some...
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Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
by book_guy  • 
In common: Sult
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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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
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In common: The Trial
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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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 Good Soldier
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 Good Soldier
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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Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
by book_guy  • 
In common: Metamorphosis
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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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 That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
In common: 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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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Mrs. Dalloway
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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Fantasy With Magic That Feels Strange Again
Fantasy With Magic That Feels Strange Again
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A house with tides, fruit that a town refuses to name, a family living beside faerie: these books make the impossible feel like an encounter with something beyond possession. The selection follows...
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Fantasy About Building a Community Rather Than Taking a Throne
Fantasy About Building a Community Rather Than Taking a Throne
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A community needs food, shelter, skills and rules about whose needs count. These 20 fantasy books make those arrangements part of the action: looking after a damaged landscape, learning to work as...
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