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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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Moonglow
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Michael Chabon
Corie
, January 23, 2017
Michael Chabon's absolute best. You know how some writers start to phone it in when they know that their next title will sell a million copies no matter what? Or, the subsequent word work in their fiction becomes so self conscious and fraught you wonder what you ever liked about them in the first place? Not this guy. Every single word in MOONGLOW is rendered to the page (keyboard) with such exacting precision it practically conjures a mood of "engineering", which comes in handy as you will see when you read it. And, yet, precise as the writing is, it still bears a lyrical quality that moves the story along in such a pure manner you have to stop and be still after some passages. Nobody* (*nobody except Jane Smiley - Smiley does this, too) can weave the strands of history and personal memoir and sage social comment like Chabon does. This is a book you will read and then re-read a year later and then again. I have recently been practicing the art of letting go by giving away the books I buy after reading them. Not this one. This one is a keeper.
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
Corie
, January 01, 2011
Clever set up and brilliant writing make this my #1 pick for 2010.
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