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  1. Alias Grace

    Author: Margaret Atwood

    "Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember." Atwood often takes her readers into the soul of the misunderstood woman, and this novel is no exception. In addition to her intimate narrative of the protagonist's inner world, she also shifts into other character's private thoughts. For my taste, too much of the story is told through snippets of poetry, newspaper art

    • Published on 1997
    • 468 pages

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  2. The Lincoln Highway

    Author: Amor Towles

    “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR  If by "joyride", NPR means sitting in the back seat while your impulsive friends take the car anywhere they'd like while you wish they'd stopped for a shake, or at least a latte, then I'd agree. This story moved (jerked) in several directions at the same time, offered beautifully written short episodes featuring secondary characters, and came to a decidedly un-redemptive ending.  I often put it down. But bor

    • Published on 2021
    • 592 pages

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  3. A Gentleman in Moscow

    Author: Amor Towles

    A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding

    • Published on 2016
    • 719 pages

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  4. Le Morte D'Arthur

    Author: Thomas Mallory

    Combine Middle English words and sentence structure with a broad cast of sword-wielding characters questing amid enchanted forests and you've got a rollicking good read, or the stuff Monty Python sketch humor is made of. Someone either gets their head cleaved to the neck or stumbles upon a well in nearly every chapter. Enchantment is the word of the day. I'd say it was impossible to experience the fullness of chivalry without throwing down against an enchantment, giving a dwarf a ride on your ho

    • Published on 2017
    • 248 pages

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  5. Circe

    Author: Madeline Miller

    Message me if you're interested in reading, and I'll send the book to you.   #1 New York Times Bestseller " A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, Circe manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right." --- Alexandra Alter, New York Times In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her fath

    • Published on 2019
    • 400 pages

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