8 Great Books

Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles, by Fabio Bartolomei Enchantment, New & Selected Stories, by Thaisa Frank Kayak Morning, by Roger Rosenblatt Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon The Middlesteins, by Jami Attenberg Love and Shame and Love, by Peter Orner …

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I am the Common Reader: Virginia Woolf on pleasure, reading, & the survival of literature

Despite her knowledge of Greek and her voracious reading of the classics, Virginia Woolf considered herself a self-taught reader. As a woman, she had been denied the illustrious Oxford education that the men in her family enjoyed. As it turns out, …

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Hikikomori and the Rental Sister by Jeff Backhaus

Jeff Backhaus’s beautiful debut novel, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister, opens with a man locked inside a room, unable to come out except for in the middle of the night, while his wife is sleeping. Ever since losing his young …

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The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

The Next Time You See Me, the debut novel by Holly Goddard Jones, is a literary mystery in the tradition of Kate Atkinson. The novel opens with the discovery of a body in the woods by a misfit middle-schooler named …

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Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner

With The Killing–AMC’s moody Seattle-centric drama series about a smart, nervous, possibly mentally ill, and extremely dedicated female detective attempting to unravel the murder of a young girl–only a distant memory, I’ve been jonesing for a thriller with a woman …

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