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Bittersweet

Happy and sad holding hands — books that make you smile through the lump in your throat and mean both at once.

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Books and stacks that feel Bittersweet

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Cover of KaikeyiCover of The Palace of IllusionsCover of Witch's HeartCover of Gospel of LokiCover of Daughter of the Moon Goddess
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Myth retellings for when you've run out of Greek ones

Norse, Hindu, Chinese and Roman myths, retold up close. For when you've closed your last Greek one and aren't ready to leave the old stories.

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Defiant Romantic
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Cover of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture MasterpieceCover of Beautiful RuinsCover of Mr Wilder and MeCover of TrioCover of Hollywood
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Novels about making a movie, mess and all

Bad catering and a star who won't come out of the trailer. Novels from behind the scenes of a film shoot, where the better story is the one off camera.

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Wry Funny
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Cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoCover of Malibu RisingCover of Carrie Soto Is BackCover of Lessons in ChemistryCover of Tom Lake
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Novels about famous women and the act they keep up

The public version of a woman, maintained at enormous cost. Stories about being looked at for a living, and who you get to be after.

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Intimate Defiant
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Cover of HyperionCover of Player of GamesCover of Closed and Common OrbitCover of The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsCover of Autonomous
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Science fiction where AIs live among us as people

Artificial intelligence that already woke up and now has to share the world with the rest of us. Sci-fi about the awkward part that comes after.

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Wry Unsettling
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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 The Things We Never SayCover of Olive KitteridgeCover of Empire FallsCover of GileadCover of We Need to Talk about Kevin
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Novels about children who drifted away

You raised them and now you're a name they're polite to on the phone. Family novels about the distance that opens up and never quite closes.

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Intimate Nostalgic
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Cover of The Things We Never SayCover of The Remains of the DayCover of The Age of InnocenceCover of StonerCover of Our souls at night
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Literary fiction about everything left unsaid

The conversation nobody starts, carried for decades and set down on the last page. Quiet novels built entirely out of what goes unsaid.

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Quiet Intimate
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Cover of Olive KitteridgeCover of Empire FallsCover of The Shampoo EffectCover of Peyton PlaceCover of Snow Falling on Cedars
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Small-town novels where nobody forgets

In a place this size everyone already knows the story, they're just waiting to see if you tell it the same way. The past has an address and still lives there.

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Intimate Nostalgic
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