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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
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In common: Birnam Wood
For readers who enjoy an ambitious sentence and still want a reason to turn the page. These novels make style and character work inside a developing story: a decision creates danger, a revelation...
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Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
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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
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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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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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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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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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South African Novels Across Generations, Places and Languages
South African Novels Across Generations, Places and Languages
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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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Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
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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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Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
by book_guy  • 
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Start with The Borrowed if you want detective fiction that moves backward through decades of Hong Kong history. For a different way into a city, try Notes of a Crocodile, with its Taipei students...
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Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
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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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Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
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Knowing the words may still leave you unsure what somebody has promised, what counts as a person, or whether a signal was meant for you at all. These books make that gap consequential. Foreigner...
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