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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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Childrens Book
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A S Byatt
Erin H
, August 30, 2013
Though very long, this Booker-shortlisted novel is a literary tapestry of imagination, mystery and history, centering around the bohemian Wellwoods in late Victorian England. The story chronicles the matriarch, a whimsical children's book author, her many children and the family friends through adventure, misfortune and tarnished reputations, from naive childhood through the devastation of World War I. Though a dense book at times, it's fantastically rewarding, engrossing and enchanting.
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Beautiful Ruins
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Jess Walter
Erin H
, January 30, 2013
From the arms of Richard Burton in 60s Italy at the Hotel Adequate View to the plastic surgery-enhanced jowls of a washed-up producer in modern-day Hollywood, this love story intricately weaves together several disparate stories over many decades and two continents. With particular attention to historic detail (dating back as far as the Donner party), Jess Walter has written not just a timeless novel, but an undeniable argument to book a trip to Italy. Pronto.
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Art of Fielding
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Chad Harbach
Erin H
, January 29, 2012
Baseball and writing are both criticized as long, laborious exercises. Their similarities seem more clear thanks to this stunning first novel by Chad Harbach. As Harbach describes the concentration, precision and attention that his protagonist, Henry, lends to the sport, it is easier to see how he himself could have spent a decade crafting the personalities and strangling life courses that wind together at a small Midwestern liberal arts school. Beautiful debut.
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