The 7 books on this stack
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Min Jin Lee 2017
Why it's on the stack
It makes you cry, in a good way · fierce and defiant
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
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Liz Moore 2024
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you thinking
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents.
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Lionel Shriver 2003
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their…
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Marilynne Robinson 2004
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · told in letters, diaries or messages
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and…
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Richard Russo 2001
Why it's on the stack
A small, intimate story · a small town hiding secrets
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect.
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Elizabeth Strout 2007
Why it's on the stack
Tender and sad at once · it's a story collection
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Elizabeth Strout's acclaimed novel Olive Kitteridge is now the basis for a HBO drama starring Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand.
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Elizabeth Strout 2026
Why it's on the stack
A small, intimate story
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most.