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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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Shadow and Bone
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Leigh Bardugo
Anna Falconer
, August 28, 2015
The opening novel to the trilogy, 'Shadow and Bone' by Leigh Bardugo is skillfully infested with plot twists and game-changers. This is one of those books that grabs you by the throat and yanks you in, (I promise it doesn't hurt that bad). I would buy it in a heartbeat if I didn't already own a copy. Bardugo is a fantastic wordsmith with a dangerous mind capable of imagining the greatest moments, lies, betrayals, and perfect-timings. I hope you fall in love with this series just as I did.
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Raven Speak
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Diane Lee Wilson
Anna Falconer
, February 23, 2015
One part historical fiction, two parts self discovery, three parts 'I have a flipping awesome horse and I'm not afraid to use it', and four parts 'creepy one-eyed lady who lives alone in the forest'. Asa Coppermane is not ordinary child and her father, the clan's chieftain, declared it to everyone when she was born. But now her father has taken all of the strongest men on a foolhardy journey and everyone knows he's not coming back, not to mention that he left the clan hungry, small, diseased, and under the care of Jorgen the Skald. It seems that Asa is the only one who can see past his caring exterior and into the awful person that he is. But there are worse things going on. Asa's mother is too sick to move and Asa must discover how strong she is, and if that is strong enough to lead the clan. Along the way, she meets Wenda, a one-eyed woman who lives in the forest with two ravens. She doesn't tell Asa how she lost her eye, but gives her the promise that something equally precious must be given in order to save her clan.
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Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau Banks
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E Lockhart
Anna Falconer
, February 13, 2015
I finished this book almost three weeks ago and I still talk to myself about it. It is FANTASTIC! In fact, it is so fantastic that it has seriously raised my standards for the books I read and I am having trouble finding titles that I enjoy (although I am enjoying myself reading Raven Speak by Diane Lee Wilson). The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is PHENOMENAL! E Lockhart is an incredible writer with enough writing skill to make us all blind. The story details the strategist Frankie Landau-Banks's life in one of the best boarding schools in the country. Frankie is not the sort of person to 'find her place' among the people at school, but rather pick the place that everybody wants and, using a crazy awesome sequence of strategies and power-plays, put herself in that place. But getting in with this fun and rowdy group of rich boys is proving a little difficult and Frankie must resort to some serious measures that make your gut twist up in a perfect pretzel knot of "holy crap, there's something wrong with her brain" and "dang, I wish I were that clever and twisted". I don't even know where to begin talking about E Lockhart's writing style. It is freaking AMAZING (understatement alert)! One of the best qualities of this book is that it isn't all about the story, it's about the characters and power-plays and about just being sick and twisted in general. And it's about writing. The plot has very little to do with writing (nothing at all if you take out the amazing undertone of neglected positives) but E Lockhart lets himself show off a little and the result is unparalleled!
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