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Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
Novels Told Through Letters, Diaries and Documents
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Diary of a Nobody, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 and 1 more
A letter has an intended reader; a diary has a keeper; a case file has someone who selected the evidence. These novels and novellas make those facts matter. Some unfold entirely through...
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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Sellout and Dear Committee Members
Power rarely introduces itself as self-interest. It arrives as procedure, expertise, efficiency, tradition or a remarkably persuasive statement of the public good. These 25 novels make those...
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Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
Books for People Who Think They Do Not Like Reading
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Born a Crime and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
If films, podcasts and a good conversation usually win your attention, start with the kind of experience you already enjoy. These books offer an immediate voice, a compelling question or pictures...
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Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Born a Crime and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A good train book establishes its voice quickly and gives you a reason to return after a platform change or an announcement. These choices range from mysteries and speculative adventures to...
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Horror That Is Also Genuinely Funny
Horror That Is Also Genuinely Funny
by book_guy  • 
In common: Good Omens
For readers who relish the volatile boundary where nervous laughter curds into dread. These novels marry comic timing, absurd workplace satire and sharp dialogue with genuine supernatural terror...
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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: Several People Are Typing
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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Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
by book_guy  • 
In common: Small Gods
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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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Born a Crime, The Sellout and 1 more
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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Comfort Reads for When Life Feels Too Loud
Comfort Reads for When Life Feels Too Loud
by book_guy  • 
In common: Cold Comfort Farm
Comfort can mean a quiet conversation, a familiar comic voice or the sight of people building a place where others belong. These choices favour companionship and practical kindness. They are not...
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
In common: This is going to hurt
Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
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Dragon Books With Different Ideas About Dragons
Dragon Books With Different Ideas About Dragons
by book_guy  • 
In common: Guards! Guards!
Dragons can be wildlife, neighbours, soldiers, rulers, machines or people with a very different view of the world. These 25 books explore that range, with attention to how creatures think, what...
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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: Less
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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Campus Novels About More Than Clever People Behaving Badly
Campus Novels About More Than Clever People Behaving Badly
by book_guy  • 
In common: Dear Committee Members
A university has to decide what it teaches, whom it pays, whose work counts and which problems it would prefer to call personal. These novels make those decisions visible. There are laboratories...
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Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Ten minutes can hold a complete encounter: a poem, an essay, a letter, a comic or one clearly bounded episode. These books give you natural stopping points and a welcoming way back after a gap...
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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: Less
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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Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Sellout
Some novels earn another page because of the person apparently speaking it. These choices favour distinctive rhythms, obsessions, evasions and ways of addressing a listener, from intimate...
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Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
by book_guy  • 
In common: Less
People do not stop being funny when life becomes difficult. Their habits, awkward conversations and attempts to keep things going can become more revealing under pressure. These 25 novels earn...
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Books That Made Me Fall in Love With Reading Again
Books That Made Me Fall in Love With Reading Again
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When reading starts to feel like another unfinished obligation, a book with an inviting voice can matter more than a reading target. These choices favour emotional involvement, manageable...
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Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The best comic futures have rules, even when those rules are appalling. These books make joke and invention work together: copyright can bankrupt a universe in Year Zero, obsolete heroes need new...
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Biographers Who Changed How We See Their Subjects
Biographers Who Changed How We See Their Subjects
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
A great biography does more than retell a life; it changes the picture everyone else had. These biographers each found new evidence, a buried archive, overlooked letters, interviews with people...
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