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Very Long Novels That Earn Their Length

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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Goldfinch and The Recognitions
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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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: Ducks, Newburyport
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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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
by book_guy  • 
In common: Wizard of the Crow
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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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
A good family novel gives everyone reasons, even when those reasons cannot be reconciled. These books follow siblings, parents, children and people made kin by care, with particular attention to...
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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Luminaries
For readers who enjoy an ambitious sentence and still want a reason to turn the page. These novels make style and character work inside a developing story: a decision creates danger, a revelation...
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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  • 
In common: Middlemarch
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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Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
by book_guy  • 
In common: Anna Karenina
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 That Open Up on a Second Reading
Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
by book_guy  • 
In common: Middlemarch
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  • 
In common: Middlemarch
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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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Anna Karenina
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
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
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
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
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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