The 8 books on this stack
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Dan Brown 2004 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · it grabs you with a mystery
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauni're, has been brutally murdered inside the museum.
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Flann O ́Brien 2014
Why it's on the stack
It stirs you up inside · odd and endearing
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.
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George Saunders 2017
Why it's on the stack
Properly strange
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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Jeffrey Eugenides 1993
Why it's on the stack
It gets under your skin · it's hiding a secret
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban…
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Donna Tartt 1992 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the…
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Markus Zusak 1998 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · it makes you cry, in a good way
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man…
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Alice Sebold 2000
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · it tells it with no filter
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school.
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Emily St. John Mandel 2014 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It hurts, and then it heals · it leaves you thinking
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear.