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6w
Good Reads
Kate
less by Andrew Sean Greer
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11w
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Animal (Lisa Taddeo)
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Edgy, antihero summer reading at its finest. Pair with The Guest!
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11w
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The Guest (Emma Cline)
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Summer can be unsettling!
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11w
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous
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Delightful book you can tear through in a weekend. Perfect to read before a trip to Rome!
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20w
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Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton)
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My environmental doomsday thriller of choice
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20w
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Pearl (Siân Hughes)
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21w
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A Children's Bible (Lydia Millet)
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The kids are alright
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21w
Good Reads
Severance (Ling Ma)
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I read this before the pandemic and cannot attest to whether it’s too triggering to read in this year of our lord 2026
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21w
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Writers & Lovers (Lily King)
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Realizing many of my recs are set in Cambridge. Or should I say, a town outside of Boston!
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21w
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
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I binged this and I don’t even like video games
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21w
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James (Percival Everett)
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This should be required reading for living in America
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21w
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Roman Stories (Jhumpa Lahiri)
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Sometimes when I think something I want to do is too challenging, I think about the fact that Jhumpa Lahiri learned Italian and then wrote short stories in it. You can do hard things!
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21w
Good Reads
Tom Lake (Ann Patchett)
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Has made me question my life choices and seriously debate working on a cherry orchard
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21w
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The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
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21w
Good Reads
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
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Stick with it! The met is apparently turning this into an opera, which I guarantee will be better than Oh Mary
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21w
Good Reads
Foster (Claire Keegan)
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Small but mighty!
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21w
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The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O'Farrell)
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Better than Hamnet, there I said it!
21w
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Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
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While searching to make this rec I learned there is a Rebecca for kids. First I was disturbed, then I decided it’s probably still better for them than reading Junie B Jones
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21w
Good Reads
The Hunter (Tana French)
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Nails the dialogue, every time. Also whoever decided to redesign the covers for this series was wrong
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21w
Good Reads
Milkman (Anna Burns)
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This won the booker for a reason
21w
Good Reads
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
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“Reader, I married him” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21w
Good Reads
The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)
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21w
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The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
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Spooky!
21w
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Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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In real life, writing a letter to the long lost ex you’re still secretly in love with does not work, but it does in this book! The Netflix adaptation is also good and this is a hill I’m prepared to die on.
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21w
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Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)
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Proof I read things by men! If you read this in public, be prepared for strangers to approach you to discuss it (including me)
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21w
Good Reads
Piglet (Lottie Hazell)
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Don’t give this to someone getting married, unless their fiancee is bad
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21w
Good Reads
Good Material (Dolly Alderton)
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Essential reading. A quote I think about a lot: “You don’t let go once. That’s your first mistake. You say goodbye over a lifetime. You might not have thought about her in ten years, then you’ll hear a song or you’ll walk past somewhere you once went together- something will come to the surface that you’d totally forgotten about. And you say another goodbye. You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.” “Does it get easier?” “Much,” she says.
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21w
Good Reads
The Rachel Incident (Caroline O'Donoghue)
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21w
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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Rebecca Mead re-reads this once a decade and that is something I aspire to
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21w
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Ghosts (Dolly Alderton)
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Queen Dolly strikes again
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