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Retellings That Give Familiar Stories a New Argument

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Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Kaikeyi and The Palace of Illusions
These 30 novels turn particular storytelling traditions into new fiction: Korean Shim Cheong, Persian Sufi poetry, Lipan Apache animal-people stories, Métis rougarou accounts and many others. The...
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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
by book_guy  • 
In common: Home Fire
A useful change of mind often begins with a judgement that stops feeling adequate. These novels and memoirs make room for conflicting loyalties, incomplete knowledge and lives that resist a...
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Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
by book_guy  • 
In common: Lavinia
Belief can shape how someone buries a stranger, listens to a neighbour or understands an obligation, long before it becomes a struggle for a throne. These fantasies take those smaller acts...
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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: James
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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Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
by book_guy  • 
In common: Wide Sargasso Sea
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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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
by book_guy  • 
In common: James
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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Urban Fantasy With Cities You Can Almost Walk Through
Urban Fantasy With Cities You Can Almost Walk Through
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Ballad of Black Tom
A good fantasy city has more than a recognisable skyline: someone has to work a shift, cross a boundary, find a room and get home. These 25 books make those routes matter. London’s hidden...
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Historical Fantasy Where the Past Shapes the Magic
Historical Fantasy Where the Past Shapes the Magic
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Ballad of Black Tom
The most convincing historical fantasy lets the past set the terms of the impossible. A spirit must find work in an immigrant city; a mapmaker's gift becomes dangerous to a ruler; a ghost...
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Fantasy Novellas With Big Ideas in Small Spaces
Fantasy Novellas With Big Ideas in Small Spaces
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Ballad of Black Tom
A novella can make one strange proposition feel large: tigers demand a correction to history, a princess stops waiting for rescue, or a demon discovers that its client may be the better liar...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Wide Sargasso Sea
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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Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A memory can be evidence, a possession, a bond with someone else or a version of events that an institution would rather replace. These books make that uncertainty part of their speculative...
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Cosy Mysteries With Communities I Would Revisit
Cosy Mysteries With Communities I Would Revisit
by book_guy  • 
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The people are the reason to return: friends with unfinished conversations, colleagues who know one another’s habits, and neighbours whose lives continue after a case is closed. These are openings...
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Science Fiction About Work, Debt and Getting By in the Future
Science Fiction About Work, Debt and Getting By in the Future
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A future feels different when someone has to pay for repairs, negotiate a contract or find a place to live after losing a job. These books make material conditions part of the story: service...
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