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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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Dark Dark Stories
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Samantha Hunt
Lindsey
, May 30, 2018
A short story collection of the normal turned on it's head, and a deeper, darker look into motherhood, marriage, suburbia, and life as we know it. Every story is written beautifully, similar in style to the collections of Lorrie Moore and Miranda July - descriptive and strange. I was hooked from the first few pages, but it's the story about a woman losing herself to the identity of family that really stuck with me. Not a difficult read, but one I wanted to savor - I only wish there was more!
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Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes
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Alison Roman
Lindsey
, February 26, 2018
I've been trying not to buy cookbooks lately, even though I really love them, because they mostly go unused when you can find every recipe on the internet. I'm so so glad I bought Dining In though! The recipes are fairly innovative, even for someone with a way back subscription to Bon Appetit, but they're also mostly new takes on classic dishes - slow roasted chicken and potatoes, reinvented (and ubiquitous) chocolate chip cookies, etc etc. I also really like that the cookbook is vegetable forward - there are a lot of hearty meats and fish dishes in here, but what I've been most excited to make have been the veggie sides and knife and fork salads.
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Everything I Never Told You
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Celeste Ng
Lindsey
, January 29, 2018
I loved this book! Weaving through a family's history from each perspective, the author touches on race, belonging, heartbreak, and the expectations we all have for our own lives. I found myself identifying with each of the characters throughout and wishing for more when I was done.
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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Carmen Maria Machado
Lindsey
, January 25, 2018
I picked up Her Body and Other Parties because of an article I had read about the first story in this collection, "The Husband Stitch", but ended up feeling moved by the other stories along the way. I appreciate SO MUCH how this book tells the real stories of women, queer women, through sex and horror and fantasy. I never expected to relate so much, or be so haunted, by something so removed from real life, but I'm so happy I read this book. Highly highly recommended.
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Modern Lovers
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Emma Straub
Lindsey
, January 24, 2018
I haaaaaated this book! I was bored from the start but kept trying to get into it because it had come so highly recommended, but even to the last page I could never bring myself to care about any of the character's or their non-problem problems. Sorry, but the lives of the wealthy, aging suburban New Yorkers are... not interesting to me. The characters were poorly developed, whiny, and nothing ever seemed to happen. Bummed I wasted my time on this, when there areso many other beautiful things I want to read.
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Pachinko
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Min Jin Lee
Lindsey
, January 24, 2018
I finished this book only a few days into 2018 but I'm doubting anything could move it off my personal Best of List for the year, and I imagine it will stick with me for a while. Spanning generations and almost 80 years, Pachinko tells the story of a family trying to make a home in a country that doesn't want them. This is a book that goes deep into family, honor, poverty, survival, and war. I feel like I learned the history of the Pacific War, but most of all I felt for the family at the center of it at each and every turn. Min Jin Lee did a lot of research (and said she had been writing Pachinko in different versions since 1994) for this book and it shows - every character is well developed and even little details seemed real. It's not a short book, but it's one I couldn't put down and was thinking about whenever I wasn't reading it. More like this! Please!
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