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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
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6 in common: The Most Fun We Ever Had, Silver Sparrow and 4 more
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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Historical Family Sagas That Span Generations
Historical Family Sagas That Span Generations
by book_guy  • 
4 in common: The House of the Spirits, Middlesex and 2 more
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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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  • 
2 in common: A place for us and 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
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2 in common: the joy luck club and 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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Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Island of Missing Trees and The Vanishing Half
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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Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Island of Missing Trees and Pachinko
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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Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Berry Pickers and The Covenant of Water
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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Historical Novels About Trade Routes & Cultural Encounters
Historical Novels About Trade Routes & Cultural Encounters
by book_guy  • 
In common: The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
Follow a cargo of coffee into Amsterdam or a shipment of opium into Canton and watch who gets to set the terms. The novels here use trade to bring people into contact across borders, through the...
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Gothic Novels With Houses, Secrets and Real Emotional Stakes
Gothic Novels With Houses, Secrets and Real Emotional Stakes
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Thirteenth Tale
For readers who relish the slow pressure of family inheritances, locked wings and ancestral guilt. These novels prove that gothic fiction endures not because of decorative cobwebs, but because old...
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Contemporary Indigenous Novels From Family Sagas to Horror
Contemporary Indigenous Novels From Family Sagas to Horror
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Berry Pickers
An Oakland powwow brings different lives together. A bookstore ghost won’t leave. A young bison gets a voice in a family saga. These novels by Indigenous writers have their own settings, forms...
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Contemporary Diaspora Novels About Work, Family, and Home
Contemporary Diaspora Novels About Work, Family, and Home
by book_guy  • 
In common: The leavers
An advertising worker wakes from a coma and returns to his family’s sushi restaurant. A woman out of work in New York tells her story in a series of meetings with a job counselor. Siblings return...
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Mystery Novels About Books, Libraries and Archives
Mystery Novels About Books, Libraries and Archives
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Thirteenth Tale
These mysteries make a book, a manuscript, or the room that keeps it part of the evidence. Some follow a single volume from hand to hand. Others ask who gets to read a text, whose account can be...
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Books About Friendship That Matter as Much as Any Romance
Books About Friendship That Matter as Much as Any Romance
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Island of Sea Women
Friendship can carry a life as decisively as romance: through shared work, unequal success, changing cities and the effort to keep showing up. These novels give friends distinct needs and let...
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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 Vanishing Half
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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Very Long Novels That Earn Their Length
Very Long Novels That Earn Their Length
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Covenant of Water
A long novel earns its space when time changes what its people and places mean. These 25 books build families, neighbourhoods, institutions or whole systems of thought through accumulation. Some...
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Cold-Case Mysteries About What Time Changes
Cold-Case Mysteries About What Time Changes
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Thirteenth Tale
A witness builds a family, a familiar landscape is redeveloped, and an old explanation becomes part of someone’s identity. These mysteries make such changes central to discovering what happened...
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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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Sapphic Sports Romance Books With Real Stakes on Both Sides of the Match
Sapphic Sports Romance Books With Real Stakes on Both Sides of the Match
by book_guy  • 
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These sapphic sports romance books give both leads something to protect as their relationship changes. Two soccer players need different things from the same team. Former hockey rivals have to...
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YA Sports Romance Books Where Both Leads Have Goals of Their Own
YA Sports Romance Books Where Both Leads Have Goals of Their Own
by book_guy  • 
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These YA sports romance books make room for flirting, practice, and the decisions young athletes have to make about their futures. A basketball player needs a cheerleader's help while her own...
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Novels About Music and the Trouble With Playing Together
Novels About Music and the Trouble With Playing Together
by book_guy  • 
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These novels about music get close to what happens when people try to make a sound together. A Dublin soul band has to get through rehearsal without splitting up. A string quartet has to learn how...
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