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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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Snoop What Your Stuff Says About You
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Sam Gosling
Erin Golsen
, November 10, 2008
This is an enjoyable, highly readable look into how we perceive others and whether those perceptions have any basis in reality. What does your CD collection, your inspirational poster, or your messy desk tell others about you?
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Post Birthday World
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Lionel Shriver
Erin Golsen
, October 18, 2008
Every decision can change your life; in this book, Lionel Shriver gives us a glimpse of two alternate lives for Irina McGovern, a children's book illustrator faced with temptation. The most fascinating aspect of this story is the way that Irina herself changes depending on what choices she makes. I really enjoyed this book, and the interview with the author in the back was entertaining, too--she sounds like a real character.
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Clumsiest People in Europe
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Todd Pruzan
Erin Golsen
, September 15, 2008
This was a fascinating glimpse at the uncensored view of the world from Victorian England. It makes it even more interesting that the original book was written for children by what may be the scariest children's book author of her time--the sometimes creepy imagery and cautionary tales are a hoot.
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Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox
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Maggie Ofarrell
Erin Golsen
, August 03, 2008
I couldn't stop reading this book, even though it was breaking my heart--the tragedy of Esme's life is so vividly and beautifully rendered. The story is skillfully structured so that even when you think you understand, there's another layer to the enormity of what has happened to Esme. Now that I've finished it, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Snow
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Orhan Pamuk
Erin Golsen
, July 08, 2008
This intricate and fascinating novel takes place over the course of a few days in a remote Turkish border town. Ka, a Turkish poet exiled in Germany, pays a visit to a beautiful former classmate and becomes embroiled in the plots, paranoia and power plays that take place when a blizzard seals the town off from the outside world. I have never read anything quite like this book (in which even the author eventually becomes a character), but it's one I'll remember for a long time to come.
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Joe College
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Tom Perrotta
Erin Golsen
, July 08, 2008
This is an entertaining and highly readable story about life at Yale in the 80s, but its real brilliance is in making the narrator, Danny, both so likable and so astonishingly selfish.
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No Good Deed
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Manda Scott
Erin Golsen
, July 07, 2008
Set in Scotland, this gripping police procedural features a fascinating central character: Orla McLeod, an undercover agent haunted by the memory of her murdered father and brother. When a case goes horribly wrong, she has to choose between vengeance for the dead and a promise to the living--the nine-year-old boy she's sworn to protect. This thriller is riveting, and the author never dumbs things down--it requires the reader's full attention.
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Blindfold
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Siri Hustvedt
Erin Golsen
, July 07, 2008
This intense and disturbing novel shows glimpses of the life of Iris Vegan, an impoverished literature student, as she seeks to make sense of a bizarre employer's strangely sinister requests, a photographer's power over her image, a German novella's compelling force, and a lover's hidden brutality. A brief but powerful book, The Blindfold haunts the reader long after it's over.
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Morningside Heights
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Cheryl Mendelson
Erin Golsen
, March 02, 2008
This is a delightful and surprisingly suspenseful story about the Braithwaite family, who would rather buy violins than new winter coats. I couldn't put the book down until I knew whether financial difficulties would force them to move from the remarkable neighborhood of Morningside Heights, a Manhattan community perfectly suited to their way of life, to the purgatory of the generic, pedestrian-unfriendly suburbs. In some ways this is an old-fashioned story, focusing on money, marriage and maintaining a way of life in the face of changing circumstances, but it was also very much set in the present, with believable and highly sympathetic characters.
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Year of Living Biblically One Mans Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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A J Jacobs
Erin Golsen
, November 24, 2007
I laughed out loud so many times while reading this book, yet what impressed me most is that Jacobs took his quest so seriously, and that he treated the believers he met with respect and humanity. As an agnostic, it would have been easy for him to go for the cheap laugh, but he actually tried to become a better person (or at least act like one, which may be half the battle.) This was a truly fascinating read (and I think the author's wife might qualify for sainthood.)
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