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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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We Five
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Mark Dunn
mallory e
, June 07, 2016
Once again, Mark Dunn brings his voice to page and creates an amazing story keeping you riveted – you can't put it down. Brilliant, the complexity of this novel breathes easily. We Five, while interweaving five novels into one, opens and closes with a lifeforce uninterrupted. The spiral of living, at eras with coincidental (or are they?) occurrences of conundrums people face in day to day decisions – drives the human spirit forward. Dunn captures each era with such pertinent dialogue (with well-researched colloquialisms), inner revelations and skillful transitions; when you finish this thorough and hefty novel jolting to an end, you take a deep breath, go for a walk and ask, “What else is there? I am hungry for more of your writing, Mr. Dunn!”
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Drown
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Junot Diaz
mallory e
, January 30, 2013
This collection just blows my mind. He is fast. He is raw. With these together, Diaz brings an ongoing fight to survive up to our noses. Placing the internal dialogue of characters in settings of brazen harsh ambiance in the barrio to the uptight suburbs of New Jersey, Diaz colors lives fully. Sure, you could say it's just families making a dollar and trying to get ahead and trying to get along while pursuing their idea of the American Dream, but their stories are stifling;I want to read them over and over to try to get to their deeper meaning. I want to know these people.
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Impostors Daughter
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Laurie Sandell
mallory e
, July 02, 2012
The Imposter's Daughter gives all of us a chance to look at what we believe and what we do with information learned when it contradicts our youthful and innocent truths. Read like fiction, this overwhelmingly painful truth of Laurie Sandell's memoir could be pieces of anyone's; however, her underlying self she fully and unashamedly illustrates thoughout the graphic novel brings tears. This is not a Hollywood memoir; rather, this is a painful life with heart that needs outing. At times humorous but always grounded, The Imposter's Daughter gives all its readers some redemption, some courage to deal with their demons, regardless of how close these demons may be. Share it.
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Griftopia a Story of Bankers Politicians & the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
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Matt Taibbi
mallory e
, January 11, 2012
This book is a full-on no-holds-barred enlightenment of information EVERYONE needs to know. Matt Taibbi expresses truths that are unfathomable; as common people, we hear news bits and then we are distracted. Taibbi alludes to the fact this may be intentional to keep us ignorant. Working as an almost advanced explanation without being too esoteric, Griftopia shows us how all people are not safe from the actions of big business. Written for us common folks, the book outlines specific covert actions of the American banking system, housing market, stock market and downright push of "the man" over the little people. Extremely timely and undeniably accurate, this account of the "state of the world" is a must read - it will catch you up on the entangled mess of politics and money. This piece on history is yet another repeat of history because the systems are undercover and broken.
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Pale King
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David Foster Wallace
mallory e
, January 01, 2012
Although this is considered an unfinished novel, and initially a daunting tome lacking paragraphs, The Pale King brings David Foster Wallace to your table with a gathering of stories and characters revolving in mutual spaces with direction. No characters are blank; within the assembled pieces and notes of manuscript compiled by his editor, Wallace succeeds in bringing us precise detail of the stories' intermingled players. His ability to speak in voices of each character demonstrate his incredible skill of these individuals surviving on the planet. Had Wallace actually completed this novel, the end result would vary; however, as is, this piece nailed it and will hold up with time. I couldn't put it down.
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Ken Kesey
mallory e
, December 16, 2010
Some people say Sometimes a Great Notion is the big union novel that everyone needs to read - it is more than that - it is the richest, rawest, densest novel about people. People have their stuff, and people need other people, but the incredible and complicated lives that all people (actually all living things) are - this is what you get. The elegant power of Kesey's craft makes you slow down and read all of it. If you move too quickly, you won't understand. Spend time with this novel, and read it every year. The power of what is actually represented may just jar you out of yourself for a moment. It changed my life.
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