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Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
He saw Laurence’s eroding dead skull beneath the earth with soil clustered around it, yet still, in the midst of all this, he was supposed to choose between chicken-avocado and ham and Pret pickle.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
“But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle?” “I hope so. I hope we are.”
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Only she, Hélène, knew that it was the number of days he had left to live. He’d allotted himself 1,825 as of April 1, 2014. Why 1,825? Hélène didn’t know. Curiously, she’d never done the calculation I did for her that morning: 1,825 days is five years on the button, so he’d been planning to die on April 1, 2019. Too optimistic, since he died on Jan
... See moreJohn Lambert • Yoga
He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.