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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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Wolf in White Van A Novel
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John Darnielle
Lydia
, October 27, 2014
Fantastic in the most literal sense of the word. A loner transforms himself in a tragic event and, while isolated from much in the world, explores the shattered landscape of an imaginary world. I'd not been familiar John Darnielle's work as a musician, but the prose is fluid and inventive and which gracefully steers the reader thorough a story that is odd and violent and magical.
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Revisionists
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Thomas Mullen
Lydia
, October 01, 2011
A fantastic (in the truest sense of the word) story about the ways we all shape the world we live in. On the surface, this is a novel about time-travel and adventure, but at its heart its concern is the way that we learn to live with our histories and find our ways through the world. Thomas Mullen is an interesting writer, and in this novel he works with the science fiction genre and his narrative in a way that is respectful, playful and curious. Would definitely recommend this book.
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Ice Trilogy
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Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell
Lydia
, July 26, 2011
A kaleidoscopic, dark, biting and hilarious story that escorts the reader through an alternative Soviet Europe of the the 20th century as a group of so called chosen people (who understand themselves to be not of the earth) go about their mission of returning to the light. An interesting and unusual book, part golden-age sci-fi and meta-philosophical exploration.
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
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Bernheimer, Kate
Lydia
, October 26, 2010
A great collection of fairy tale "reboots", so to speak. 40 authors take on fairy tales and blend familiar tropes with a healthy dose of weird. I enjoyed reading this a lot (folklore is an interest of mine) but think that this book also has great potential as a teaching tool; these stories provide critical commentary on gender, religion, family and social mores in a way that is witty, interesting and entertaining.
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself a Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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Lipsky, David
Lydia
, July 08, 2010
Not quite a biography, this account of a road-tripping interview with David Foster Wallace at the onset of his fame is an interesting look in to the life of a man who will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the greatest minds in his generation. The author/narrator provides transcripts of several days worth of conversations, offering the reader a glimpse of David Foster Wallace's life just as he was taking his place as one of the world's most respected writers. The author's own introduction offers little in the way of new information, but it provides a reader with what (almost) feels like a chance to sit next to a luminary.
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Kraken
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China Mieville
Lydia
, July 08, 2010
Having purchased this book the day it came out (who can resist a book about a mythical squid?), I can say that this is taking its place as one of my favorite Mieville novels. It carries the stamp of the author's own weird way of imagining the world, but is also accessible to those who are interested in exploring the world of speculative fiction. I read half of this at the beach and had a blast, and strongly recommend it to Mieville fans and newcomers alike.
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The Colony
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Jillian Weise
Lydia
, July 08, 2010
This was an exciting read; part allegory, part fairy tale, part dystopian future, I was hooked. Jillian Weise does a masterful job of painting a picture in which the human body is both a wonderful, organic, messy fact, and an arena where science and nature meet to do battle. A great book.
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Many Deaths Of The Firefly Brothers
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Thomas Mullen
Lydia
, January 26, 2010
Another great book by Thomas Mullen, the author of Last Town on Earth. This time he turns his attention to a pair of bank-robbing brothers durning the Great Depresssion, brothers who for one reason or another, don't stay dead. This is both an historical and a fantastic novel, and there are a lot of reasons to like it; I definitely found it to be a page turner.
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Chronic City
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Jonathan Lethem
Lydia
, November 02, 2009
I loved this book. Like Motherless Brooklyn's Brooklyn, Chronic City's New York is the human psyche made real, the thoughts and works and anxieties of the 20th and 21st centuries reflected in the architecture of a world that alomst looks like the one we readers inhabit. If Urban Fantasy is the stand-out genre of the early 21st century, it is in part because of Lethem's grasp on literary and social history, his facility with form, and his talent for painting a fantastic world that looks so much like the one we inhabit. A great read.
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