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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Guards
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Ken Bruen
Mick
, August 16, 2010
Great stuff here. urban, angry, clever, insightful, and the battles with booze and the law for an ex-guard (cop) with many of the permutations of life in Galway, Ireland. It's a terrific ride, as are many of Bruen's works.
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This Is Where I Leave You
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Jonathan Tropper
Mick
, January 11, 2010
You think you come from a wacky, screwed-up family, well, read this one. The Foxman family comes together for Dad's shiva and all kinds of issues are raised. And all of them are wildly entertaining and emotionally raw. I'm just glad, it's not my story. Great fun and great writing.
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Restless
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William Boyd
Mick
, September 19, 2008
A terrific tale of WWII espionage, as a young Russian woman is taught the how-to's of being a spy, and possibly a counter-spy. It's entertaining, enlightening and an all around pleasure to read. It well deserves the awards that it has won.
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Learners The Book After the Cheese Monkeys
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Chip Kidd
Mick
, August 21, 2008
Chip Kidd continues the post coming of age life of Happy, a fledgling graphic designer, and presently not living up to his nickname. He lands his first job in the small ad house of his choice, finds a wonderful mentor, and learns about life in the "real" world. The characters are engaging, the situations are fun, sad, mundane, and real, the writing is very clever. Its also gives insight into the thinking and working of life in the small ad life. There's one sequence that could serve as primer to creating busy print ads. The novel is a sequel to the delightful The Cheese Monkeys, but stands alone very well, also.
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In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin
Mick
, January 17, 2008
It's been called a great travel book, and it is, and it's more than that. It's insights into life in Patagonia, which is way down south in South America. Chatwin is a walker and a collector of tales, insights, folklore, and conversations. He provides interesting snippets of lives in this remote part of the world, and he writes it all impeccably.
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Sicko (Widescreen)
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Mick
, December 06, 2007
Sicko is an eye-opening documentary. It provides insights (and opinions) as to what works, or more pointedly, what doesn't work in the US medical care system. It also provides a view into how healthcare works abroad. Insightful, entertaining and great storytelling, and Moore doesn't get in the way of the information.
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Blue Angel
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Francine Prose
Mick
, August 15, 2007
Francine Prose tells a tale that weaves teaching and learning, lust and life and all that goes along with that in an academic setting, and it's all thoroughly engaging. I loved reading it, and am so pleased not to be a character in it.
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Feast Of Love
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Charles Baxter
Mick
, August 15, 2007
This novel is a sheer pleasure to read. Baxter tells stories of love, love lost, love found and does it all beautifully. It's all as accessible as life (and love) itself. I love this book.
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Dreamland
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Kevin Baker
Mick
, August 15, 2007
Dreamland is magic. It weaves in time, lives, texture, history, grit, city life and a world that few have seen in NYC. It tells many stories expertly and centers around life in Coney Island at the turn of the 20th century. This was the first novel in Baker's New York City trilogy and it's a gem.
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Stones For Ibarra
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Harriet Doerr
Mick
, February 27, 2007
Stones for Ibarra tells small tales (wonderfully told) of life in a village/town in Mexico. An American couple move to Ibarra, the husband having inherited the local mine. They arrive knowing that time is limited due to his illness. What this book provides are insights into lives that are common to all and very moving for the reader.
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Tender at the Bone Growing Up at the Table
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Ruth Reichl
Mick
, January 05, 2007
This is an engaging intro to Ruth Reichl: her writing, her love of food, her skill with food and her family (egad!). This book makes you want to read more, cook more, travel more, and enjoy life more. What could be better?
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What I Loved
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Siri Hustvedt
Mick
, January 03, 2007
I love this book. It is a rich story that is intelligent, moving, multi-faceted and a pleasure to read. I have recommended it to many friends and all have been moved by it.
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The Shadow of the Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves
Mick
, November 28, 2006
This is an extraordinary tale, exquisitely told. It is magical, eerie, dark, lusty, enchanting, mysterious, uplifting, pleasurable and much more. This story takes you away fom the world in which you live, somewhere where you want to be. This is what pleasure reading is all about.
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Heat An Amateurs Adventures as Kitchen Slave Line Cook Pasta Maker & Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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Bill Buford
Mick
, November 28, 2006
This book made me want to cook and eat and learn about food, and cook some more and eat some more, and on and on and on. Great fun.
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Strivers Row
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Kevin Baker
Mick
, August 31, 2006
Striver's Row completes Baker's New York Trilogy admirably. It takes place in Harlem we take in New York City that is vibrant with action and characters: a young man coming to NYC for the first time and the eye-opening experiences that he has, a young Adam Clayton Powell working his politics, jazz afficionados living the raucous life in clubs and after hours joints, and enter into the life of a young minister learning to guide the church that he inherits from his father. Great insights into urban life in the 30/40's.
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Body & Soul
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Frank Conroy
Mick
, August 24, 2006
This is, qute simply, a great book. It's a [kw]coming of age[/kw] that lives in the[kw] music[/kw] that the protagonist, a piano prodigy, makes. Conroy takes you into the city, into the music and into [t]the soul of Claude Rawlings[/t]. I have recommended this book to many and all have enjoyed it. [a]I wish that Conroy had written more novels.[/a]
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A Woman Run Mad
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John L'Heureux
Mick
, August 24, 2006
An incredibly fast paced novel, it 's the story of love, lust, madness, sex, intellectuality, philosophy, Greek and Latin classics, urban living, Alzeimer's and all the good(?) stuff that goes along with it. Not just another day in the park. And great fun to read by an excellent author.
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