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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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Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
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Dave Eggers
bbemily
, March 31, 2008
This is the best collection I have ever read! Dave Eggers is the perfect person to edit this collection of random but entertaining and touching writing. Everything from Conan O'Brian's Stuyvesant High School graduation speech to comic strips to short stories by inventive authors can be found in here. A must-buy for anyone really into literature, or anyone just looking for a good time.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
bbemily
, March 30, 2008
This was an AMAZING book. Marcus Zusak is a great and unique writer. He creates very memorable, vivid, rich characters. Liesel's story is heart-wrenching from the start. Anybody can enjoy this book.
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Change of Heart
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Jodi Picoult
bbemily
, March 24, 2008
Jodi Picoult's fifteenth novel is more bland than her past novels. Her signature questions are not so hard to answer this time around. Instead, the reader asks-what mother would deny a heart for her dying daughter? Picoult seems to be writing a book about religion just for the sake of it. The plot twists are here, but this book is lacking in powerful emotions.
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Remainder
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Tom Mccarthy
bbemily
, March 24, 2008
This eerie story will leave you with a strange taste by the time you have finished reading. After winning millions in a lawsuit and spending many minutes is physical therapy, the narrator's life becomes consumed with re-creating a vision. This includes renovating a building to his exact specifications and staffing it with "re-creators", from a liver-cooking woman to a piano player, whose constant acts of re-creating follow a pattern no less lenient. As the narrator's demands become more and more bizarre, the fascinating but disturbing ending is inevitable.
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