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Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
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2 in common: The Island of Missing Trees and Golem and the Jinni
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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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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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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: Pachinko
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 Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Island of Missing Trees
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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Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
by book_guy  • 
In common: A History of Burning
Historical fiction offers far more than one war or one continent. These novels range from classical Athens and Pompeii to Ming China, Mughal India, East Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, with...
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Books With Endings That Stay With You
Books With Endings That Stay With You
by book_guy  • 
In common: Brooklyn
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 for Your Twenties When Life Refuses to Follow a Plan
Books for Your Twenties When Life Refuses to Follow a Plan
by book_guy  • 
In common: Brooklyn
Your twenties can feel like a series of decisions made while watching other people appear to get theirs right. These novels, essays and memoirs question that impression through insecure work...
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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
In common: Pachinko
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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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
In common: Brooklyn
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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Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
by book_guy  • 
In common: Golem and the Jinni
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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Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
by book_guy  • 
In common: Golem and the Jinni
These fantasies pay attention to what people can make, repair, sell or provide, and to the lives those activities support. Start with The Magic of Recluce for patient craft training, Legends...
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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: Golem and the Jinni
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: Golem and the Jinni
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 Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
by book_guy  • 
In common: Golem and the Jinni
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 Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Pachinko
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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Romances With Adults Who Learn to Communicate
Romances With Adults Who Learn to Communicate
by book_guy  • 
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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
by book_guy  • 
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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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