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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
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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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Novels About Revolutions After the Speeches End
Novels About Revolutions After the Speeches End
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In common: The Sympathizer
Revolutionary promises acquire a different weight when they become a court ruling, a property claim, a job or a family loyalty. These novels follow that change, through civil conflict and the less...
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Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
Unreliable Narrators Worth Trusting With Your Time
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In common: The Sympathizer
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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Debut Novels With a Voice of Their Own
Debut Novels With a Voice of Their Own
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In common: The Sympathizer
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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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
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In common: The Sympathizer
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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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
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In common: The Sympathizer
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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Historical Novels Led by Servants, Artisans and Labourers
Historical Novels Led by Servants, Artisans and Labourers
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History looks different when you are responsible for the laundry, the printing, the repairs or the next shift. These novels put servants, craftspeople, labourers and other working people at the...
May contain nudity
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Romances With Adults Who Learn to Communicate
Romances With Adults Who Learn to Communicate
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Desire can be immediate; learning how to ask, listen and disagree usually takes longer. These romances make that learning part of the pleasure, from tentative new relationships to marriages...
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Police Procedurals That Remember the Work Is Done by a Team
Police Procedurals That Remember the Work Is Done by a Team
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A useful colleague can notice a missed detail, pursue a dull lead, disagree with a convincing theory or carry work that one detective could never finish alone. These procedurals give that...
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