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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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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…”..."
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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..."
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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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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..."
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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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The Burning Side
By Sarah Damoff ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10 "" A life together is forged in ten thousand choices."..."
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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..."
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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..."
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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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Kin
By Tayari Jones ★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10 ""People who are well loved always think there is more out there for them to enjoy."..."