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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
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2 in common: The Namesake and Americanah
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 Your Twenties When Life Refuses to Follow a Plan
Books for Your Twenties When Life Refuses to Follow a Plan
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Namesake and Americanah
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 That Understand Starting Over in Middle Age
Books That Understand Starting Over in Middle Age
by book_guy  • 
In common: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
A fresh start still comes with bills, family habits and people who have not agreed to change at the same pace. These novels follow adults in midlife through lost work, separation, grief, belated...
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Experimental Novels That Are Also Fun to Read
Experimental Novels That Are Also Fun to Read
by book_guy  • 
In common: Interior Chinatown
These novels make form part of the enjoyment: a shrinking alphabet, conversations in margins, shuffled sections, scripts and stories that send you back through earlier pages. The fun varies from...
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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
In common: Brother
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 Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
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In common: Americanah
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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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Americanah
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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Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
by book_guy  • 
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Start with a newspaper obituary writer and his penguin, a Prague paper baler with a soft spot for books, or a friendship with a formidable housekeeper. Each of these works in English translation...
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Enemies-to-Lovers Romance Books Where the Grudge Makes Sense
Enemies-to-Lovers Romance Books Where the Grudge Makes Sense
by book_guy  • 
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An insult at a dance can spoil a first impression. A promotion only one person can get can turn a colleague into an adversary. The couples in these enemies-to-lovers romance books have something...
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Iranian Books About Private Life & Public Boundaries
Iranian Books About Private Life & Public Boundaries
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A crush in a shared family garden, new neighbors across the street in Abadan, and a love story with lines crossed out give these books three ways into private life. Start with a family satire or a...
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Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Arrival is only one part of making a home. These novels stay for the rented rooms, unfamiliar workplaces, changing languages and relationships that relocation puts under pressure. The routes...
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Pakistani Fiction About Lives Beyond the Headlines
Pakistani Fiction About Lives Beyond the Headlines
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A family argues about marriage in Karachi. A reporter tries to fit a social life around her assignments. A boy travels through the borderlands. These novels and stories follow private lives...
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Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
by book_guy  • 
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A job offer can open a route abroad. A missing document can close one, even after decades in the same country. These books follow people as they move, wait, settle, and sometimes return. Along the...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
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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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Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
by book_guy  • 
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For readers who want a missing person to remain a person, with a history, relationships and a voice that complicates the first account. These novels follow families, investigators and communities...
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Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
by book_guy  • 
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A girl paints patterns in a Bangladeshi village, a Dhaka mansion hides a family secret, and a school project in Ireland makes two girls argue over who gets to sell henna. These novels and stories...
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Domestic Suspense That Understands Money, Care and Resentment
Domestic Suspense That Understands Money, Care and Resentment
by book_guy  • 
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A home can offer security while leaving the people inside it on very different terms. These suspense novels take seriously the work of caring, the need for somewhere to live and the power attached...
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Arabic Novels in English Translation, From Family Sagas to Fantasy
Arabic Novels in English Translation, From Family Sagas to Fantasy
by book_guy  • 
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Start with three sisters making different choices about marriage in an Omani village, then try a Casablanca detective novel or follow a turbulent flight into London’s Arab neighborhoods. Each book...
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Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
by book_guy  • 
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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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