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Contemporary Indigenous Novels From Family Sagas to Horror

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Historical Family Sagas That Span Generations
Historical Family Sagas That Span Generations
by book_guy  • 
In common: Eliza Sunshine
These novels follow a family long enough to show how one generation’s decisions become the next generation’s starting point. Begin with Homegoing if you want the story to pass from one relative to...
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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
by book_guy  • 
In common: There There
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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Science Fiction About Colonisation From More Than One Side
Science Fiction About Colonisation From More Than One Side
by book_guy  • 
In common: Moon of the Crusted Snow
A landing is never the whole story of colonisation. These books ask who can claim land, decide what counts as knowledge and set the terms on which other people may survive. Alien encounters sit...
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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: Bad Cree
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 Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Sentence
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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Folk Horror Beyond the English Countryside
Folk Horror Beyond the English Countryside
by movie_expert  • 
On a similar theme
Old beliefs travel well; their meanings change with the ground beneath them. These films move from a Scottish island and Welsh hills to Estonian villages, Malaysian forests and Guatemala's...
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Post-Apocalyptic Books About What People Build Afterwards
Post-Apocalyptic Books About What People Build Afterwards
by book_guy  • 
In common: Moon of the Crusted Snow
The first emergency is only the beginning. These books stay interested in the work afterwards: growing food, repairing useful things, sharing authority, raising children and deciding what...
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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: The Berry Pickers
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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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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Books About Jane Austen & the World She Wrote About
Books About Jane Austen & the World She Wrote About
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Start with a biography for the shape of Jane Austen’s life or open her letters for the voice of a woman writing to people she knew well. These books about Jane Austen also explain the details her...
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Brazilian Books in English Translation Across Places & Genres
Brazilian Books in English Translation Across Places & Genres
by book_guy  • 
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Start with a hollow saint’s head in a small northeastern town, a farm in rural Bahia, or the early days of Brasília, where people remember the city’s founding differently. These Brazilian novels...
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Sri Lankan Fiction With Different Views of the Same Island
Sri Lankan Fiction With Different Views of the Same Island
by book_guy  • 
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Start with the households in Funny Boy or Reef for coming-of-age stories told on an intimate scale. Uprooted and The Jam Fruit Tree move into village and Burgher family life, while The Seven Moons...
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South African Novels Across Generations, Places and Languages
South African Novels Across Generations, Places and Languages
by book_guy  • 
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Start with two retired neighbors in Cape Town who have spent years getting on each other’s nerves, or go to an Eastern Cape village arguing about a proposed casino. These novels tell their stories...
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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
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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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Western Novels With More Than a Lone Gunman
Western Novels With More Than a Lone Gunman
by book_guy  • 
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In these Westerns, what happens to a whole crew, family, or community matters as much as any one person's fate. The books earn their place through the work of moving a herd, running a farm, or...
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Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
by book_guy  • 
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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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Folk Horror Where the Landscape Keeps Its Own Rules
Folk Horror Where the Landscape Keeps Its Own Rules
by book_guy  • 
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A shortcut through the woods, a walk to a shrine, and a morning spent fishing can all take you past a boundary you didn’t know was there. These books make the terrain part of the danger. Start...
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