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Taipei Story
By R.F. Kuang ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 ""All you could see were the ways in which the Chinese kids were better than you: poreless, sweatless, excellent at math, skilled at weaving their bikes in and out of traffic. How cruel it was to..."
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Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 7.5/10 ""I know who is talking what they say. That man not a bad man, even if he loves money, but he hears so many stories he don’t know what to believe. That is why he keep away.”..."
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Fresh Water for Flowers
By Valerie Perrin ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""As soon as he opened his mouth, I felt solitude falling off me like dead skin. His voice seemed to shine on me, as if he had switched on a lamp above my head. Like when a day seems gloomy, and..."
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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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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.”..."
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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..."
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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..."
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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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A Guardian and a Thief
By Megha Majumdar ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10 ""But the needs of others were always smaller than the needs of one's own child."..."
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Flashlight
By Susan Choi ★★★★★★★★★½ 9.5/10 ""My God, she remembers this, too: his utter faith in her. No one, least of all her, ever held such faith in her again."..."
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This Is Where The Serpent Lies
By Daniyal Mueenuddin