Robert Stone 1986
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Nobody is entirely good · it tells it with no filter
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It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
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It tells it with no filter · sharp and very funny
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No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
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Nobody is entirely good · fierce and defiant
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It tells it with no filter · it leaves you shaken
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it ties your stomach in a knot
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Nobody is entirely good · it gets under your skin
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It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
Things Fall Apart
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A big story that sweeps you along · melancholic and unhurried
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Funny and sad at once · melancholic and unhurried
The reapers are the angels
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It tells it with no filter · fierce and defiant
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
No clean hands here, but in science fiction
Seize the day
Saul Bellow 1956
Melancholic and unhurried · all in one day, one night or one summer
Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry 1995
It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
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Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
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A love story that hurts · a love story that makes you laugh
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf 1925
Comforting, like coming home · it stays with you
The go-between
L. P. Hartley 1953
Comforting, like coming home · tender and sad at once
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson 2004
Tender and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
A farewell that moves you · it makes you think, without a lecture
Asylum
Patrick McGrath 1998
It stirs you up inside · a place nobody can leave
the leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1995
Comforting, like coming home · sad, and in no hurry
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh 1946
Comforting, like coming home · sad, and in no hurry
The quiet American
Graham Greene 1955
Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan 1954
Funny and sad at once · melancholic and unhurried
The secret history
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · a trial at the heart of the story
Trio
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Love hurts sometimes · love and laughs in equal parts
Small Things Like These
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You come out liking people more · tender and sad at once
The Blind Assassin
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Sad, and in no hurry · a mystery you want to solve
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