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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 5, 2017
The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Guardian's Books by Kazuo Ishiguro

The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

7.6 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...

      
      
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John Waters recommended My Prizes: An Accounting in Books (curated)

 
My Prizes: An Accounting
My Prizes: An Accounting
Thomas Bernhard | 2010 | Biography
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"Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth! The Austrian intellectual sourpuss hilariously rejects every literary award he was ever given. Refusal as an art form."

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Alison Bechdel recommended Possession in Books (curated)

 
Possession
Possession
A.S. Byatt | 2013 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"I am a sucker for campus novels, and this is one of the best, even though it has some pretty scathing things to say about feminist literary criticism."

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Jay McInerney recommended Lost Illusions in Books (curated)

 
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions
Honore de Balzac | 1837 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"Boy comes to the city to be a great writer; life ensues. A panoramic view of mid-19th-century Paris, with all its literary, erotic and political intrigues."

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Isaac Mizrahi recommended The Elements of Style in Books (curated)

 
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style
E.B. White, William Strunk | 2013 | Essays
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"Literary style is never more important to me than on a desert island, but more, the drawings, the correlations, the wit and color of this book would sustain me forever."

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Val Kilmer recommended Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Books (curated)

 
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, Emory Elliott | 2008 | Children
6.9 (28 Ratings)
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"This is simply one of the best, if not the best, American novels. The storytelling and life lessons make it no wonder that it's part of the literary scholastic found"

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Merissa (13961 KP) created a post

May 26, 2025  
"What does it mean to be different?"

Excerpt: Boy with Wings by Mark Mustian - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #Literary, #Historical, #Fiction,

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Dana (24 KP) rated Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader in Books

Mar 23, 2018  
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Cassandra Clare, Rachel Caine, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Michelle Hodkin, Sara Ryan, Kami Garcia, Sarah Cross, Kelly Link, Gwenda Bond, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Scott Tracey | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
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This collection of literary analysis is by popular authors gave an interesting insight into the world Cassandra Clare created. I enjoyed hearing about the views these authors had on the subject.
  
    The Great Books

    The Great Books

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    Join John J. Miller, the director of the journalism program at Hillsdale College, as he embarks upon...