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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against the thoughts of the green world.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The blackest despair at the heart of them gets pressed to diamond.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
It was these arcana I craved, these near-invisible textures like a Braille legible only to the initiated. They were like thoroughbreds, those two Murder detectives passing through Ballygobackwards; like trapeze artists honed to a sizzling shine.
Tana French • In the Woods
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Nathan Hill • The Nix
to “shake the snow globe,”
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
A biologist is not a detective, but I began to think like a detective.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
though he were trying to locate in the sheets an answer to the mystery of this geographical displacement.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
He smelled of chard and metal,