Custom Book List - October 2020


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Book cover for "Atonement"
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4.3 stars
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EMOTIONAL DRAMA IN AN ENGLISH SETTING. STYLISTICALLY COMPLEX AND REFLECTIVE
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In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
Book cover for "Before I go to sleep"
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3.7 stars
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INTRICATELY PLOTTED PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS"
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An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
Book cover for "Blackout"
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4.8 stars
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE 11/22/63. FAST-PACED TIME TRAVEL NARRATIVE.
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When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history...
Book cover for "Cloud atlas"
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4.1 stars
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A SWEEPING EPIC, UNIQUE AND MIND-BENDING.
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Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Book cover for "The goldfinch"
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3.9 stars
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HAUNTING AND MELANCHOLY WITH RICH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
Book cover for "Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves"
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3.4 stars
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SURREAL AND MIND-BENDING, FOR FANS OF DAVID LYNCH, HORROR, AND UNIQUE NARRATIVES
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A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries
Book cover for "Never let me go"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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SAME AUTHOR AS "THE REMAINS OF THE DAY". GRADUALLY UNVEILING PLOT, ENGLISH SETTING WITH PLENTY OF SUBTEXT
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"As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it...
Book cover for "The thorn birds"
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3.8 stars
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE "EAST OF EDEN", DRAMATIC FAMILY SAGA
Book cover for "We have always lived in the castle"
Star rating for We have always lived in the castle
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4 stars
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DRAMATIC GOTHIC HORROR, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "MY COUSIN RACHEL".
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Book cover for "The wind-up bird chronicle"
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4.2 stars
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UNIQUE AND SURREAL, WEIRD FICTION
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...