Tag: historical fiction
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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Safekeep is historical literary romance, which is not generally my bag. I loved it. The less you know going in the better. I think this one is going to win a lot of awards.
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Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee
Boyhood isn’t my favourite Coetzee book, but the honest and realistic view through the eyes of a ten-year-old reminded me of another book I love
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Black Hole by Charles Burns
Black Hole is a legendary graphic novel. It’s on every best-of list. I can see why, but it didn’t do anything for me
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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.