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#1
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propulsive and never meanderssparse and starkbleak and grimplain and poeticNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE...See Full Details
Liked The Road?
#2
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sparse and starkminimalist and brutaldarkly evocative novelsurprising, penetrating, beautiful proseOuter Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A wo...See Full Details
Liked Outer Dark?
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1st person pluralfirst person plural narrationfirst-person everywoman memoirnarrative in natureNATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Award Finalist ...See Full Details
Liked The Buddha in the Attic?
#4
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simple, stark prosecut and dried terrorsimple and spareheart wrenching bookIt is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experie...See Full Details
Liked Night?
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She shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. I...See Full Details
Liked The Hunter?
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Wes...See Full Details
Liked Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West?
#7
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simplicity and realismher family of origingrinding poverty and lovestream of consciousness#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary n...See Full Details
Liked My Name Is Lucy Barton?
#8
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dark and brutaldark, joyless novelpurity and simplicitydark and unsettlingWinner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ...See Full Details
Liked The Vegetarian?
#9
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sparse poetic prosefocused prosa stylethoughtful and reflectiveplain, unadorned proseA New York Times Notable Book
An Esquire Best Book of 2011...See Full Details
Liked Train Dreams?
#10
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an unusual novellavivid but directionlessan epic poemfierce and thoughtful proseThe #1 Indie Next Selection for November 2017, a Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers ...See Full Details
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