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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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Hero
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Perry Moore
ronn
, February 20, 2011
Thoughtful, engrossing and ground-breaking? Yes. Overall, it is an entertaining book that is very accessible and I highly recommend it for its intended audiences, young adults/teens. I also recommend it for older readers that want to read an authentic old-time comic.
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Glorious
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Bernice L. McFadden
ronn
, August 03, 2010
A spectacular historical novel. Mcfadden does a fantastic job of blending history and fiction. The story of Easter (patterned after great writers Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larson) details the brutality of Southern racism and the "Great Migration" of African Americans, the Harlem Renaissance and the early days of the Civil Rights movement. To her credit, she never preaches and the story keeps you captivated throughout. It is a triumphant story of redemption, of overcoming hardship and pain without being cliched. I highly recommended it for fans of simply great fiction.
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Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Junot Diaz
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, September 03, 2007
The decade-long wait for Junot's first novel was well worth it. The Times's Michiko Kakutani described it as "wondrous" and "Mario Vargas Llosa meets 'Star Trek' meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West." The comparisons could not have been more accurate. WAO is a melange of literary styles: at turns a memoir (like the protagonist, Diaz is a Dominican American who came of age in New Jersey and whiled away his time on Sci-Fi, anime and other nerdy endeavors), an urbane history of the Dominican Republic and a fantastical journey. Fans of his short fiction will be greatly rewarded, as will newbies. I'm sure many readers will finish this longish novel with few (if any!) interruptions.
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