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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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Room
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Emma Donoghue
Sophia Johnson
, January 19, 2012
Wonderful, strange, compelling.
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Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Aimee Bender
Sophia Johnson
, October 04, 2011
The narrator of this book is just cynical enough to be believable; as she recounts her childhood, we recount it with her. The magic is woven in here so simply that it never feels unbelievable, and the narrative moves along beautifully, leave its reader moved. There's a strange and wonderful sadness to this book that is capped nicely with a strangely happy ending.
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The Tiger's Wife
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Téa Obreht
Sophia Johnson
, October 04, 2011
Beautiful, dark, intense, magical. The only trouble with this book was that I couldn't read it at night because that is how sad it is; that is how tersely she deals with the morose and the tragic. But that is how some of us deal with our loss, and we may have to sort through the collective mysteries of our pasts to come to find some peace. A fresh voice; I look forward to reading more of Obreht's work in the future.
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