Whistler
By Ann Patchett ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""There is so much randomness to youth. The person assigned to share your room becomes your friend, the girl you pass on your way out the door becomes your wife, and from these random encounters our..."
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The Shrouded Queen
By Ashley Tropea ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 "” ‘Hope,’ he elaborated. ‘At its core, that’s what prayer is, right? Hope that the gods are listening. Hope that we’re not alone. Hope that they’ll help. It’s a painful thing to lose.’ “..."
John of John
By Douglas Stuart ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "”His father put all his faith in the Presbyterian penicillin. For whatever ailed you there was only one cure: work and prayer.”..."
The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 "“It’s like capitalism is a bomb, isn’t it? One that creates cities then explodes then really slowly…”..."
Sorrow and Bliss
By Meg Mason ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "“It had been nearly a month, hours and hours of every day, and as though it was now her turn, my mother said, ‘Martha, no marriage makes sense. Especially not to the outside world. A marriage is..."
Land
By Maggie O’ Farrell ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "” They were here for a while, the six of them, and before them, others lived here, and before them, someone else, and now they are all gone, and whoever cut that turf is here now. After all these..."
Forgotten on Sunday
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""I jot down what Monsieur Geant tells me in my new notebook. Sometimes, I read it back to him. It makes him laugh. He tells me that it's as if he is listening to someone else's story, that my..."
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do? Still indomitable was the reply: I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, th..."
The Burning Side
By Sarah Damoff ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "" A life together is forged in ten thousand choices."..."
The Serpent and the Wolf
By Rebecca Robinson ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 ""Unease threaded in her stomach for only a moment, and she shoved it down with the force of a blow. Fear was the most dangerous emotion she felt- one that summoned the infectious curse crawling beneat..."
The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""I was an odd bird, I knew that. People had told me that most of my life. But I'd learned to live with loneliness in a way my sister never would. She'd never had to. I'd be afraid for her if she eve..."
Honey in the Wound
By Jiyoung Han ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""She has seen to it that he tasted their sorrows. She has seen to it that he did not forget, that his final breath was taken in the remembered torments of his own creation, no honey in the wound to s..."
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Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""...for if you were to forge new kinds of weapons, and those weapons flew farther and sailed higher than anything before them, it stood to reason that the payloads might strike beings hovering at alti..."
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Kin
By Tayari Jones ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""People who are well loved always think there is more out there for them to enjoy."..."
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The Keeper
By Tana French ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""Cal has always known that Lena's chosen weapons are barricades, not artillery, but he never thought she would use them against him."..."
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Sisters in Yellow
By Mieko Kawakami ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""No matter the relationship, the person who earned the money never forgot it was theirs. In their heart of hearts, it was them letting someone else use the money. As a favor."..."
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Mad Mabel
By Sally Hepworth ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""This is a love story, by the way. It may not seem like it, what with all the blood and guts and murder, but nevertheless, that's what it is. And there is no greater love story than that of platoni..."
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Guilt
By Keigo Higashino ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""Truth isn't an easy thing to find, and sometimes in the end it's barely worth finding."..."
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Good People
By Patmeena Sabit ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "“They gave her freedom because they believed that was how they would keep her from bad ways. And in return she served them water in their own skulls.”..."
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King of Kings
By Scott Anderson ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 "In some ways, this is a variation on the chicken-or-egg riddle, a debate point upon which reasonable people can disagree. On the one hand, the Iranian rebellion represented one of history's greatest c..."
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A Good Animal
By Sara Maurer ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10 ""When I walk these fields, I feel generations beside me."..."
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Vigil
By George Saunders ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""I scanned for doubts regarding things he had done ir keft undone; things he might have said but had not; mistakes to which he had not yet fully admitted, any of which might keep him from attaining th..."
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The Elements
By John Boyne ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""Around us, gurneys pass by while outside, in the waiting room, people sit with broken arms, sprained ankles, knife wounds, all the injuries that human beings suffer on a daily basis, because our skin..."
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The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 "" 'What's going to happen to us?' Luna asked the cat. 'What is going to happen to me and my brother?' Suffering, the cat answered. And joy."..."