Years from now I'll remember exactly where I was when I read the chapter about the bubonic plague. O'Farrell makes grief feel like weather — moving through everything, settling in places.
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Quietly devastating. The way Klara reads the world is the most precise writing about loneliness I've encountered all year. Don't read this when you're tired.
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The pollen had done its work. The forest could speak now, in the only language a forest knows — patience, repetition, and the slow march of leaves.
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Demon Copperhead
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver took David Copperfield and made it ours. A novel about Appalachia that refuses every cliché thrown at it, and somehow ends up tender anyway.
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
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The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
I thought this one was overhyped. I was wrong. The shifts in tense in the final third do something I've never seen a novel pull off before. Read it slowly.
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The hardest book I've read this year, and the one I'll think about the longest. Don't ask me to recommend it — I won't, but I won't take it back either.
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A novel told through one house and centuries of its inhabitants. Mason writes the kind of sentences you read twice — once for what they say, once for the way they say it.
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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
Bluets · Maggie Nelson · p.1
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