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The non-fiction literary year ahead, although we're already on September!

Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ... the literary year ahead


The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Martin Amis

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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing...

Anthony Powell: A Life

Anthony Powell: A Life

Hilary Spurling

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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...

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Sacred

Neil MacGregor

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A major new book by the author of A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS. SACRED, for November 2017,...


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The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

Rebecca Solnit

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Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which...

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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Nov 16, 2017
As winter approaches, here are some of Washington Post's favourite reads – from thrillers to literary fiction, memoir, history and politics:

The Washington Post's annual survey of the best books includes 10 they think are exceptionally rewarding:


Sing, Unburied, Sing

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

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A searing and profound odyssey bringing the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century...

Saints for All Occasions

Saints for All Occasions

J. Courtney Sullivan

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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...


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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

David Garrow

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The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United...


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The Power

The Power

Naomi Alderman

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Read our exclusive author interview SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...

Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book...

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Merissa (12051 KP) created a post

Apr 26, 2021  
"Fans of historical fiction, Native American fiction, Christian historical fiction, clean romance, and literary fiction will be moved by this deep, heartfelt novel."

TOUR & EXCERPT - Harvest Moon (By the Light of the Moon #4) by Jenny Knipfer - @Archaeolibrary, @maryanneyarde, @JennyKnipfer, #CoffeePotBookClub, #HistoricalFiction, #ChristianFiction,

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Merissa (12051 KP) created a post

Apr 19, 2021  
"Starting over is hard enough but when ghosts decide to hitch a ride into the future—things can get complicated."

TOUR & #GIVEAWAY - Oh Good Now This by Susan Merson - @Archaeolibrary, @GoddessFish, #Womens, #Literary, #Fiction,

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Among Strange Victims
Among Strange Victims
Christina MacSweeney, Daniel Saldaña Paris | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
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"Daniel Saldaña París is the Mexican Philip Roth, dare I say, and his novel is both satirical and self-reflective, which is my favorite mode of literary expression. I met him a few years ago, and speaking with him about writing fiction was like talking to a long lost twin."

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The Printed Letter Bookshop
The Printed Letter Bookshop
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Today Katherine Reay’s latest work “The Printed Letter Bookshop” was released, and I just published my #bookreview of this novel on my blog. It is a work of literary, contemporary, women’s fiction, and you can find out what I thought of it here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/05/14/bookish-kinship-building/
  
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
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"Any collection of John Cheever’s short stories. I’m not a big fan of much of what passes itself off as literary fiction, finding it to be insipid, self-indulgent, plotless, and pointless. However, Cheever could write about everyday life and make it fascinating. His psychological insights are deft, never heavy-handed, and sometimes, as in his story “The Enormous Radio,” he veers into some really strange territory."

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Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas | 2012 | Children, Fiction & Poetry
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I love how different this book is. It left me turning pages and wanting more because I hadn't seen anything quite like this yet. The main character is such a bad a** and I never once found her dull. While there is romance, this isn't a sappy love story. (0 more)
This is purely commercial fiction, not literary. That's perfectly fine, but that simply means it's not art. Just something to read for fun. (0 more)
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Jo Nesbo recommended Gentlemen in Books (curated)

 
Gentlemen
Gentlemen
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"This has been a cult novel in Sweden ever since it was published in 1980, and has to some degree been discovered in Norway, too. It steals from both the classics and pulp fiction and has this couldn’t-care-less-attitude combined with literary talent that reminds me of Jim Carrol's “Basketball Diaries.” Both have this special sense of time and place that makes you want to move to Stockholm or New York."

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My Counterfeit Self
My Counterfeit Self
Jane Davis | 2016
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What does poetry have to do with social activism? A whole lot, actually, as you'll find out in Jane Davis's novel "My Counterfeit Self" and through my #bookreview of this historical, contemporary, women's literary fiction novel on my blog now. (I think this has just become my favorite of her books, as it just edged out "Smash All the Windows" by a whisker!)<br/>https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/05/11/a-poetically-explosive-story/<br/>;