The 9 books on this stack
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Agustina Bazterrica 2015 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living.
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John Steinbeck 1952
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · it makes you think, without a lecture
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations…
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Hermann Hesse 1951
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · it stays with you
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha.
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Richard Adams 1972 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It hurts, and then it heals · you'll finish it in two nights
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Watership Down- The Graphic Novel captures Richard Adams's epic tale of courage, friendship, hope, and survival.
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Daniel Keyes 1966 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · told in letters, diaries or messages
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.
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Mary Shelley 2006 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a story hidden inside another
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Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein was met with upon its…
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Philip K. Dick 2007 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · within the walls of a school
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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2019 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · the life of someone made, not born
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of…