Custom Book List - October 2020


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Book cover for "Before I go to sleep"
Star rating for Before I go to sleep
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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INTRICATELY PLOTTED PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS"
Description:
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 "Never let me go"
Star rating for Never let me go
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
Description:
"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 "We have always lived in the castle"
Star rating for We have always lived in the castle
Average Rating:
4 stars
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DRAMATIC GOTHIC HORROR, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "MY COUSIN RACHEL".
Description:
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"
Star rating for The wind-up bird chronicle
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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UNIQUE AND SURREAL, WEIRD FICTION
Description:
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...