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    The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron

    1 rating

    The explosive 1967 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, a gripping and unforgettable portrait of the leader of America’s bloodiest slave revolt The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, … more

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    A complex, sympathetic protagonist painted onto a viscerally deplorable landscape.
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    The Sisters BrothersPatrick deWitt

    6 ratings

    “A gorgeous, wise, riveting work of, among other things, cowboy noir…Honestly, I can’t recall ever being this fond of a pair of psychopaths.” —David Wroblewski, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle “A masterful, … more

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    Who knew hired killers could be hilarious, gentle, thoughtful, sympathetic?
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    Mockingjay (The Final Book o...Suzanne Collins

    453 ratings
    Average wait: 2d, 16h

    The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest?Katniss Everdeen.The final book in The… more

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    Not the ending I was hoping for. But on second thought, it was better than a predictable one.
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    East of Eden (Penguin Twenti...John Steinbeck

    3 ratings

    The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is the powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is both family saga and a modern retelling of the book of Genesis.

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    This book left me with a warm-fuzzy feeling inside (in a non-clichéd type of way).
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    The RoadCormac McCarthy

    8 ratings

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic’s Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los A… more

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    Haunting and terrifying. Impossible to put down.
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    Blindness (Harvest Book)Jose Saramago

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    A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one ey… more

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    An adult version of Lord of the Flies.
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    The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)Ursula K. Le Guin

    2 ratings

    Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have bee… more

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    kurtrik added a soundbite about The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle) 1 year ago
    More social commentary and less science fiction. Definitely one of my favourites.
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    The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins

    643 ratings
    Average wait: 3d, 11h

    Now in paperback, the book no one can stop talking about …In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps … more

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    Not my favourite book ever. But I read it in one sitting. Take from that what you will.
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    The Handmaid's Tale: A NovelMargaret Atwood

    8 ratings

    The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood first published in 1985. The novel explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency, against a backdrop of the establishment… more

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    kurtrik added a soundbite about The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel 1 year ago
    This was my first Atwood... and it floored me. She really knows how to do speculative fiction.
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    The QuickeningMichelle Hoover

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    Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and … more

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    I would love to see this made into a movie, though all the beautiful prose would be lost.
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