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Books for Book Clubs That Like to Disagree
Books for Book Clubs That Like to Disagree
by book_guy  • 
6 in common: School for Good Mothers, The Lathe of Heaven and 4 more
The most interesting meeting can end with people seeing more clearly why they disagree. These novels offer more than a provocative premise: their voices, consequences and competing loyalties give...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
6 in common: 密やかな結晶, Parable of the Sower and 4 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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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Parable of the Sower, Station Eleven and 1 more
Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Sea of Tranquility and Station Eleven
A whole weekend with one book is a chance to settle into another place, rather than simply finish a large number of pages. These novels offer an inhabited world, a reason to keep turning the pages...
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Books That Reward Going In Knowing Almost Nothing
Books That Reward Going In Knowing Almost Nothing
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Lathe of Heaven and Never Let Me Go
Sometimes the best preparation is a sense of tone and enough uninterrupted time, rather than a detailed explanation. These novels reward discovering how they work while you read them. The entries...
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Books With Endings That Stay With You
Books With Endings That Stay With You
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go
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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Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go
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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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go
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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Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
by book_guy  • 
In common: The book of strange new things
Knowing the words may still leave you unsure what somebody has promised, what counts as a person, or whether a signal was meant for you at all. These books make that gap consequential. Foreigner...
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
In common: Severance
Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
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Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
by book_guy  • 
In common: Flowers for Algernon
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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Hard Science Fiction That Still Cares About Its Characters
Hard Science Fiction That Still Cares About Its Characters
by book_guy  • 
In common: Flowers for Algernon
A calculation matters more when somebody has to live with the answer. These books connect scientific problems to loneliness, loyalty, work, family and responsibility. Start with The Martian for...
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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: Kindred
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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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
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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Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
Anger becomes more useful when you can name the arrangements behind it, hear from the people affected and argue about what might change them. This selection moves between organising studies...
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Books for a Rainy Day When You Want to Feel Everything
Books for a Rainy Day When You Want to Feel Everything
by book_guy  • 
In common: Never Let Me Go
Some rainy days call for a book that lets longing, tenderness, anger and joy occupy the same room. These choices earn their emotion through particular voices, places and relationships. There are...
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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: The Dispossessed
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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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: Never Let Me Go
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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Generation-Ship Novels About Living Inside a Long Journey
Generation-Ship Novels About Living Inside a Long Journey
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
On a generation ship, the long journey is also an entire working world. These novels consider the people maintaining its systems, the rules handed down to their children and the arguments that...
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Science Fiction About Bodies That Can Be Changed
Science Fiction About Bodies That Can Be Changed
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A different body can open a door, create a new dependence or become somebody else's property. These books explore all three possibilities. All Systems Red and A Closed and Common Orbit give...
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