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9 Books You'd Recommend to Anyone

9 Books You'd Recommend to Anyone
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Originally posted on Kirkus.

All the books on this week’s list leave you feeling like you’ve been part of a complex, intriguing, memorable world, one that entirely envelops you and leaves you wanting more. There isn’t any more, though, at least not yet: No sequels to these books exist. The next best thing, though, is talking about the book with a friend. So check out this week’s books and recommend them to someone else!

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Books You'd Recommend To Anyone
'Lucky Us' by Amy Bloom(01 of09)
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"Bloom enlivens her story with understated humor as well as offbeat and unforgettable characters. Despite a couple of anachronisms, this is a hard-luck coming-of-age story with heart."On a journey from Ohio to Hollywood to Long Island to London in the 1940s, a couple of plucky half sisters continually reinvent themselves with the help of an unconventional assortment of friends and relatives.Read full book review.
'Sleep Donation: A Novella' by Karen Russell(02 of09)
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"More of a detour than a natural progression for the author, whose fans will nevertheless find this as engaging as it is provocative."One of America's finest fiction writers returns with an audaciously allegorical novella about sleep deprivation in an age of sensory overload.Read full book review.
'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir' by Roz Chast, illustrated by Roz Chast(03 of09)
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"A top-notch graphic memoir that adds a whole new dimension to readers' appreciation of Chast and her work."A revelatory and occasionally hilarious memoir by the New Yorker cartoonist on helping her parents through their old age.Read full book review.
'Everything I Never Told You' by Celeste Ng(04 of09)
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"Ng's emotionally complex debut novel sucks you in like a strong current and holds you fast until its final secrets surface."Ng's nuanced debut novel begins with the death of a teenage girl and then uses the mysterious circumstances of her drowning as a springboard to dive into the troubled waters beneath the calm surface of her Chinese-American family.Read full book review.
'Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad Of An Outlaw And His Daughter' by Maria Venegas(05 of09)
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"As Venegas portrays him in this stark, tender narrative, Jose is an extremely complicated man—longing for his children's love, beset by regrets and seared by brutality."A daughter recounts a legacy of violence in this debut memoir.Read full book review.
'The Girl With All The Gifts' by M.R. Carey(06 of09)
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"One of the more imaginative and ingenious additions to the dystopian canon."Carey offers a post-apocalyptic tale set in England in a future when most humans are "empty houses where people used to live."Read full book review.
'Fourth Of July Creek' by Smith Henderson(07 of09)
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"Of a piece with Peter Heller's The Dog Stars and Cormac McCarthy's The Road in imagining a rural West that's seen better days—and perhaps better people, too."Of wide open spaces and lives narrowly, desperately lived at the bitter ends of dirt and gravel roads.Read full book review.
'All The Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr(08 of09)
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"Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters."Doerr presents us with two intricate stories, both of which take place during World War II; late in the novel, inevitably, they intersect.Read full book review.
'Panic In A Suitcase' by Yelena Akhtiorskaya(09 of09)
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"Akhtiorskaya’s sideways humor allows rays of genuine emotion to filter through the social and domestic satire."Given current events, Akhtiorskaya’s debut—concerning an immigrant family’s ambivalent ties to America and those who choose to stay behind in Ukraine—could not be more timely.Read full book review.

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