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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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Out Stealing Horses
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Petterson, Per
Peter Anderson
, January 02, 2012
Quietly intense, impeccably narrated, simply beautiful. I look forward to many years of discovering new Petterson novels as they come into English translation.
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Too Loud a Solitude
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Bohumil Hrabal, Michael Henry Heim
Peter Anderson
, October 21, 2011
Goodness, what a phenomenal little book this is. Powerful with so few words. Thoughtful, philosophical, touching, funny, and ultimately tragic. But though tragic, the conclusion makes perfect sense in light of the preceding narrative, and the narrator gains a fate which is greatly preferable to the unpalatable alternative that he otherwise faced. The book has shades of Knut Hamsun (the solitary, intellectual, reality-challenged narrator of Hunger), George Orwell (the stubborn permanence of the written word, a la 1984) and Franz Kafka (inhuman bureaucracies and the overall surreal tone), three writers whom I greatly admire, a list to which I now add Bohumil Hrabal. During my life I've only re-read a handful of books, but Too Loud a Solitude is one I will definitely be returning to, and probably more than once.
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Darkness At Noon
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Arthur Koestler
Peter Anderson
, January 05, 2011
A powerful, thoughtful and ultimately tragic discourse on revolutionary politics. Koestler's masterpiece clearly was a direct influence on Orwell's 1984. If you've read 1984 you absolutely must read this book too.
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Howards End
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E. M. Forster
Peter Anderson
, January 26, 2008
A simply wonderful novel about social classes in early-20th Century England, how members of those classes interact and what responsibility, if any, they have toward each other. After being dismissive of her early in the novel, I actually found myself cheering for Margaret at the end.
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The Session: A Novella in Dialogue
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Aaron Petrovich
Peter Anderson
, June 22, 2007
Petrovich's debut is a darkly comic "novella in dialogue" - no narrative or expository passages - in which all is not quite what it seems. The author wryly meditates on truth and identity as he scatters subtle clues to the real story lurking just beneath the surface. A very impressive effort from a young writer I'm eager to read more from.
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Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits
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Laila Lalami
Peter Anderson
, February 10, 2007
Expertly crafted and emotionally moving novel about Moroccans risking their lives crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in pursuit of better circumstances in Spain.
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Forgetfulness
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Ward Just
Peter Anderson
, February 10, 2007
Wonderfully written and deeply insightful novel about one man confronting grief, vengeance and his past, by perhaps our most unappreciated great author.
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Beware of God
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Shalom Auslander
Peter Anderson
, December 09, 2006
Extremely funny, deeply thoughtful and borderline blasphemous stories about God, believers and the nature of faith.
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Peoples Act Of Love
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James Meek
Peter Anderson
, October 19, 2006
The novel is a stunning achievement, one with an epic sweep which still manages to convey the small details of people?s everyday lives. It?s a story of love, suspense and war which asks some very big philosophical questions which, in intriguingly ambiguous fashion, are only partially answered. Simply put, it's one of the finest books I've read in years.
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Hairstyles of the Damned
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Joe Meno
Peter Anderson
, August 21, 2006
Sharply written and funny tale of a teenaged boy of the early 1990s struggling to find his place in the world. Meno nails the 17-year-old male voice perfectly.
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