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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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Ready Player One
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Ernest Cline
Amy_S
, October 27, 2014
A delightful genre mashup (sci-fi, coming of age, YA, fantasy) for any children of the 80's to dive into (though not purely 80's - there's a lot of Joss Whedon, Quentin Tarantino and other geek royalty thrown in)! I rooted for the hero, hated the evil conglomerate, and reminisced over all the pop-culture of my formative years. This tale spans a wide readership audience -- if you liked Rainbow Rowell's "Eleanor & Park", if you sacrificed all your quarters to playing arcade games at the local pizza parlor, if you loved and studied Matthew Broderick's "War Games," if you think "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" indelibly changed television and if you laugh at xkcd.com jokes... you'll love this book.
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Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy #2)
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Jeff VanderMeer
Amy_S
, October 27, 2014
An alien and frustrating read as the protagonist encounters an alien and frustrating research environment he is tasked with leading at the Southern Reach facility. I couldn't help but feel discombobulated myself as I struggled through the prose to figure out what on earth was going on, should I trust what I was reading, and was the tale insinuating itself into my own life like something catching? I would have hated the experience of reading if not for the final chapters which serve as a kind of payoff for all the grief as well as hint at greater payoff in the final third of the trilogy which I will definitely be diving into next.
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