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Cover of Station ElevenCover of Slow HorsesCover of Normal PeopleCover of Gentleman in MoscowCover of The Handmaid's Tale
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Read it before it was prestige TV

The books behind the prestige TV everyone binged. Read them first, picture it yourself, then argue about what the show got wrong.

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Haunting Melancholic
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Cover of Boys in the BoatCover of Friday night lightsCover of OpenCover of MoneyballCover of The secret race
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Sports books worth reading even if you hate sports

Stories where the final score is the least of it. The best sports writing is about everything the game drags in with it.

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Cathartic Intimate
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Cover of The End of EternityCover of 2001Cover of 1984Cover of The Sirens of TitanCover of Solaris
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Understanding Science Fiction

If you're new to science fiction and want to understand its tropes, here's a stack of books covering what you should probably read to get up to speed

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Epic Mysterious
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Cover of The Shampoo EffectCover of Bonjour TristesseCover of The Go-betweenCover of The Summer BookCover of Sag Harbor
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Novels set over one long summer

Three months off, and nobody is quite the same person by the end. Summer novels that live inside one season and never step outside it.

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Nostalgic Bittersweet
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Cover of Station ElevenCover of The Lovely BonesCover of Book ThiefCover of The secret historyCover of Virgin Suicides
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Novels that open with a death

Someone dies before the story really starts. Books that hand you a body on page one, then get on with living.

Haunting Melancholic
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Cover of Days at the Morisaki BookshopCover of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong BookshopCover of Before the Coffee Gets ColdCover of Un gato para los días difícilesCover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat
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Asian fiction that heals on a slow simmer

Japanese and Korean novels that don't want to change your life — just keep you company while the tea goes cold.

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Quiet Cozy
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Cover of Rebeldes pero LealesCover of Pequeña ala
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Teenage rebels and music

Rebellion is an essential part of growing up, in one form or another, and music sets the rhythm of our lives at any age.

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Defiant Intimate
1 month ago 2 Saved by 2 readers 11 Viewed 11 times
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Cover of A Confederacy of DuncesCover of Catch-22Cover of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyCover of Good OmensCover of Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Books that made me laugh out loud, alone

The kind of funny that makes you look up to see if anyone heard you cackle. Genuinely hilarious books, not just "wry" ones.

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Absurd Playful
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Cover of Lessons in ChemistryCover of Crying in H MartCover of HeartburnCover of Eat, pray, loveCover of Sweet bean paste
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Books that made me hungry

Books about food that will make you hungry by chapter two. Meals you can almost smell, kitchens where the whole story happens. Eat first.

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Sensual Intimate
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Cover of The Silent PatientCover of Shutter IslandCover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestCover of AsylumCover of The Secret Scripture
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Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward

The ward is the whole world here. One locked corridor, and whatever the staff decide today. Fiction and memoir set in a mental hospital.

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Defiant Claustrophobic
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Cover of North and South (1854). By: Elizabeth GaskellCover of Hating GameCover of Red, White and Royal blueCover of Spanish Love DeceptionCover of The Cruel Prince
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Enemies to lovers where the hate is real first

Romance where they genuinely can't stand each other first. The insult lands long before the want does, and the turn costs them something.

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Defiant Romantic
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Cover of Of Mice and MenCover of The Old Man and the SeaCover of Animal FarmCover of The OutsiderCover of Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Novels you finish in one sitting

Short enough to swallow whole, sharp enough that you won't want to put them down anyway. For an afternoon, a long train ride, or a night you don't want to sleep.

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Unsettling Melancholic
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Cover of In AscensionCover of EversionCover of 2001Cover of Rendezvous with RamaCover of Sphere
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First contact with something we can't explain

Something shows up that shouldn't exist, and the whole book is the attempt to make sense of it. Awe-struck, faintly dreadful science fiction.

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Unsettling Haunting
2 months ago 15 Viewed 15 times
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Cover of Robinson CrusoeCover of Into the WildCover of The MartianCover of HatchetCover of Touching the Void
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Books about being alone and surviving it

Solitude as something you can walk through and come out the other side. Stories of people far from everyone, finding out what's still there.

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Meditative Raw
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Cover of From Lukov with LoveCover of The FlatshareCover of RadianceCover of Funny StoryCover of The Safekeep
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Slow burn romance with no spark at hello

Two people who feel nothing at first, then everything. Slow burn romance where you actually watch them fall, page by page.

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Romantic Propulsive
2 months ago 16 Viewed 16 times
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