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Novels

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• Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong (rated 5/5)
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• Wintering by Peter Geye (rated 4/5)
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• If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene (rated 4/5)
• Before the Feast by Sasa Stanisic (author), Anthea Bell (translator) (rated 5/5)
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Historical Fiction

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (rated 5/5)
• What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte (rated 5/5)
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• As Good as Gone by Larry Watson (rated 5/5)

Short Stories/Essays

• Goodnight, Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes (rated 4/5)
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Poetry

• The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner (rated 4/5)

Mysteries

• The Second Girl by David Swinson (rated 5/5)
• The Dead Don't Bleed by David Krugler (rated 5/5)
• Murder on the Quai by Cara Black (rated 4/5)
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Thrillers

• The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell (rated 4/5)
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• I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (rated 5/5)
• Marked for Life by Emelie Schepp (rated 5/5)
• Brighton by Michael Harvey (rated 5/5)
• Since She Went Away by David Bell

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alternate History

• A Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. Durbin (rated 5/5)

Biographies/Memoirs

• A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson (rated 5/5)
• Falling by Elisha Cooper (rated 5/5)
• The Butler's Child by Lewis M. Steel, Beau Friedlander (rated 5/5)
• In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi (rated 5/5)

History, Science & Current Affairs

• Grunt by Mary Roach (rated 5/5)
• The Lynching by Laurence Leamer (rated 5/5)
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• White Trash by Nancy Isenberg (rated 5/5)
• Being a Beast by Charles Foster (rated 5/5)

Novels

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Mysteries

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Romance

• We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore (rated 5/5)

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alternate History

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