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Elizabeth Strout
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If you love Ann Patchett, you will love Elizabeth Strout. In fact, with all due respect to the Patchett-heads out there, every time I read a book by Anne Patchett, I'm like, "wow what a great idea for a book! I wish it was written by Elizabeth Strout!" I avoided reading her for a long time because I didn't like the cover of Olive Kitteridge. (Dumb??) Start with the My Name is Lucy Barton series. Catnip.
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Howards End (E. M. Forster)
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I have a lot of favorite books, but this is the only book that has been beloved by every person I've recommended it to. It's beautifully written. It's politically prescient. It's perfect.
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The Magus (John Fowles)
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"A fireworks exhibition of fantasy, sexual love and moral awareness" need I say more??? This book was recommended to me in 2020 by someone working at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene (thank you, whoever you are!) and I read it in a week, hunched over on the back fire escape of my apartment in Bed-Stuy, with the hum of the generator below. The world was totally surreal, and maybe that's why I fell in love with this book, in which the protagonist is perpetually thrown off-balance by the strangeness of the world around him. It is largely set on a Greek island and it is sexy and weird and midcentury and I hope it holds up bc if not I'll be very sad!!! Whenever I meet ppl who also love this book, I feel like we're members of a secret society. Join! (Will update when I finish reread.)
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