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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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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
JaneEyre
, January 02, 2013
A powerful book, with a strong sense of justice.
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Up in the Old Hotel & Other Stories
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Joseph Mitchell
JaneEyre
, August 04, 2012
These essays are an absolute pleasure to read. I was hooked from the first page. Although it's cliched to say so, the places and characters do come alive. And Mitchell's writing is a joy --- as I read, I kept finding myself wanting to buttonhole someone and read aloud to them!
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Skipper Worse
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Alexander Lange Kielland
JaneEyre
, January 01, 2012
A spare and strongly affecting novel that deserves to be much better known. The language is spare but vivid and powerful; the characters are quiet Norwegians whose fates make your heart ache.
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The Blue Sword
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Robin Mckinley
JaneEyre
, January 12, 2010
I just returned to this book, many years after loving it as a kid and fearing perhaps it might not be as good as I remembered (as is so often the case). But it was even more wonderful than I'd remembered! A truly absorbing novel, with a strong heroine who feels real.
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Dream Of Scipio
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Iain Pears
JaneEyre
, January 08, 2010
A wonderful book: the three narratives are subtly connected, and each of its three protagonists has to choose between the grand idea of 'Civilization' and friendship, and those choices are very much tied up with how they treat the powerless. The kind of book that grows on you as it carefully, slowly, and subtly develops its ideas through its characters.
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Waiting For The Barbarians
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J M Coetzee
JaneEyre
, March 14, 2008
A powerful book that develops its central character's moral ambiguity and complicity thoughtfully.
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