Tag: Literary Fiction
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
A bunch of short stories that you’ll want to re-read as soon as you finish.
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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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Dalila by Jason Donald
As a critique of post-Brexit referendum immigration sentiment in the UK, this book is great. As a Kenyan woman’s perspective written by a white guy, it’s a bit less successful.
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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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Apeirogon by Colum McCann
This book tells the mostly true story of two dads who have each lost a child in the violence in Israel and Palestine.
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A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
An overlooked classic. The 1963 story of an older Italian man becoming obsessed with a younger woman. It’s well-traveled ground but I’ve never read anything like this.
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Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The book that put Murray on the map is funny, sad and addictive, and maybe even better than his high-profile follow up The Bee Sting.
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Blackouts by Justin Torres
I couldn’t put it down, but I also didn’t really get it.
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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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Lanny by Max Porter
Max Porter’s second book is a stunner — a quick read that I immediately re-read most of once I was finished.