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Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
Novels About Artists That Understand the Work
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The Goldfinch and The Recognitions
A creative life is made from repeated decisions about materials, time, other people and the money needed to continue. These novels pay attention to that work across ceramics, textiles...
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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 Covenant of Water and The Luminaries
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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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: Ducks, Newburyport
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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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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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Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
by book_guy  • 
In common: Middlemarch
The drawing rooms have accounts to settle. These Victorian novels follow money through marriages, inheritances, jobs and households, exposing the distance between respectable appearances and...
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Epics That Earn Their Long Running Time
Epics That Earn Their Long Running Time
by movie_expert  • 
On a similar theme
A long film earns its place when the extra time changes how we understand its people and their world. Here, journeys create attachment, families gather history and spectacle acquires consequences...
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Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
by book_guy  • 
In common: Anna Karenina
Meet the nineteenth century through Brazilian tenements, Shanghai courtesan houses, colonial Philippine institutions, Warsaw commerce, South African farm life and other distinctive social worlds...
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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
by book_guy  • 
In common: Wizard of the Crow
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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African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
by book_guy  • 
In common: Wizard of the Crow
Lagos can be full of fallen gods, Mombasa can open onto a sea of monsters, and an invented empire can build its power by deciding which histories may be told. This selection follows African...
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Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
Literary Novels With Plots That Keep Moving
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Luminaries
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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Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
Books That Open Up on a Second Reading
by book_guy  • 
In common: Middlemarch
A return visit can move your sympathies, reveal a pattern or make a once-minor conversation feel central. These novels offer particular reasons to read again, from Austen's social misreadings to...
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Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
Classics Worth Revisiting Beyond the Classroom
by book_guy  • 
In common: Middlemarch
A familiar school text can become a different reading experience when there is time to hear its jokes, follow its suspense and recognise the compromises its people make. These choices offer ways...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Anna Karenina
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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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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Gothic Novels With Houses, Secrets and Real Emotional Stakes
Gothic Novels With Houses, Secrets and Real Emotional Stakes
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
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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Monster Stories Told From an Unexpected Perspective
Monster Stories Told From an Unexpected Perspective
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
For readers drawn to fiction where the creature is not merely an obstacle to be vanquished, but the experiencing consciousness. These stories explore alien senses, conflicting moral codes and the...
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Science Fiction Novellas and Short Novels Built Around One Idea
Science Fiction Novellas and Short Novels Built Around One Idea
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A strong speculative premise can fit inside a small book without making the people inside it small. These novellas and short novels follow a central experiment through its intellectual and...
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Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
Short Novels That Stay With You for Years
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A short novel can leave a much larger world behind it. These complete novels and novellas earn their place through a memorable voice, moral pressure or an ending that changes the meaning of what...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
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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Epic Fantasy Series Worth the Long Commitment
Epic Fantasy Series Worth the Long Commitment
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A long fantasy series earns its space when alliances, institutions and private decisions keep changing what comes next. These twenty recommendations favour completed arcs, from three substantial...
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