Tag: historical fiction
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My Friends by Hisham Matar
“Some books, like some people, are shy”
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Shattering, beautiful and essential
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Loved this, even if it didn’t have the personal impact of Foster
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Beautifully written, impossible to put down, with an ending full of shocking twists. Probably perfect. You should read it.
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The Fraud by Zadie Smith
This didn’t work for me at all.
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James by Percival Everett
Everett’s interpretation of the slave character from Huckleberry Finn is subversive, funny, thrilling and thought-provoking.
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
A brutal, graphic, beautiful and essential novel about a doomed romantic relationship at the beginning of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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Foster by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s short but beautiful book hit me in a specific and memorable way.
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
It’s a visual experience more than a story – Barnum and Bailey art-directed by David Lynch.
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The Magician by Colm Tóibín
An imagined biography if Thomas Mann that seems highbrow and alienating but is actually compelling historical fiction, even if you don’t know the subject well.