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The Little Café in Copenhagen (City Bakes)
The Little Café in Copenhagen (City Bakes)
Julie Caplin | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
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I mean it's a romance novel set in copenhagen... was there ever going to be a doubt about me loving this? I absolutely loved getting to revisit all of my favourite places in the city through this book and it just made me so happy.
  
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Irvine Welsh recommended The Football Factory in Books (curated)

 
The Football Factory
The Football Factory
John King | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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"‘Coventry are fuck all. They’ve got a shit team and shit support. Hitler had the right idea when he flattened the place.’ Yes, I was hooked from the opening sentences too. This is the most important English novel since Orwell put pen to paper."

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Nathan Englander recommended Station Eleven in Books (curated)

 
Station Eleven
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
7.9 (29 Ratings)
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"Feeling like your world is currently imploding? Here’s an I-couldn’t-put-it-down dystopian novel that makes the end of days kind of cheery (in the end). I just finished reading it, and am glad to have a place to sing its praises."

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Nigella Lawson recommended Lucy in Books (curated)

 
Lucy
Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid | 2002 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"This is a nuanced and powerful novel about growing up, the mother-daughter relationship, female identity, sexuality, cultural dissonance, privilege, poverty and the pernicious legacy of colonialism. Kincaid’s style is both immediate and headily intense. A glinting, multifaceted work within relatively so few pages."

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Ellie Kemper recommended Emma in Books (curated)

 
Emma
Emma
Jane Austen | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
7.4 (31 Ratings)
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"The one criticism I’ve read about this novel is that Emma isn’t particularly good or likable, but that’s beside the point. The sly, clever, eloquent Jane Austen is the one who is likable, and the reader is in exquisite company with her at all times."

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The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman | 2020 | Crime, Mystery
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8.1 (12 Ratings)
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it killed me to finish it
the thursday murder club is a joy to read with witty dialog and a great "Who dunnit" feel to it ,cant wait to read the follow up book
  
The Left Hand of Darkness: Book in the Hainish Series
The Left Hand of Darkness: Book in the Hainish Series
Ursula K. Le Guin | 1982 | Fiction & Poetry
7.0 (3 Ratings)
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"Forced to pick a single sci-fi novel I’ll go with this because, in ways even beyond most sci-fi, it is so far ahead of its time. You’re left believing entirely in the worlds she’s imagined, including a better version of this one."

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Janet Mock recommended The Age of Innocence in Books (curated)

 
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton | 1920 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
6.5 (2 Ratings)
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"Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel fulfilled me deeply as a lover of period piece romances. Her characters showed me early on that love is as much a choice as it is a feeling, and the pull of family, society and tradition can be overbearing."

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The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
Christopher Beha | 2021 | Fiction & Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Romance
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"New novel, 2020, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, ranging from politics to baseball to mortality and sexuality, and what else is there? Family life, and this is also there, a work that gains momentum as it sweeps along, with an eloquent final page."

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The Good Lieutenant
The Good Lieutenant
Whitney Terrelll | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"Before writing his third novel, Whitney Terrell twice worked as an embedded reporter during the recent U.S. war in Iraq. The Good Lieutenant, published last year, explores the tragic complexities of the war from the perspective of a young female Army lieutenant from the Midwest"

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