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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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Warcross: Warcross 1
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Marie Lu
Anais
, December 15, 2019
Put on your NeuroLink glasses and step into the futuristic world of Warcross by Marie Lu, or at least the gritty world where Warcross was developed and face up to a reality likened to M.T. Anderson’s Feed. Emika Chen is an ex-programmer-turned-bounty-hunter with her father’s gambling debts hanging over her head next to the overdue rent. When her small hack of the world’s most popular video game fails to go unnoticed, she’s thrust into a high stakes investigation at the request of the game’s creator and her personal hero, Hideo Tanaka. Blending in may be Emika’s biggest challenge amid the gaming super-rich. In a world where leveling up gets you power-ups, and power-ups help you level up, Emika’s score jumps immediately with her new opportunity. Overnight, she goes from an eviction notice to a bottomless credit account. But the highest price might be someone’s life if she can’t figure out who’s trying to kill them. And she might have even bigger concerns than a lunatic threatening her idol. When you can’t trust your senses, who can you trust? Emika must choose carefully; one misstep could mean Gameover. For her, for Hideo, for everyone. *I’m not a romance person, but this book has strong romantic tension it you like that. Strong enough to pull itself through several chapters as a subplot.
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Two Boys Kissing
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Levithan, David
Anais
, December 15, 2019
Of all the words describing the importance of Two Boys Kissing in the long list of awards and glowing reviews, "unapologic" rings truest. Asking readers to stop averting their eyes and witness the beauty, frailty, and the bittersweet joy in the image of two boys kissing, Levithan's tender story is composed of many stories. They follow Craig and Harry attempting a world-record kiss, Ryan and Avery navigating a chance meeting at a prom, Cooper discovering what’s left in this world for him, and every boy along the way. But these boys are not alone. Told in the style of a greek chorus, their story brims with the voices of the now-voiceless gay men who came before them. They interweave current conflicts with their historic insights with notes of pride and yearning that heightens the recognition that this book is written by a gay man who remembers things about LGBTQ+ experiences that some of today’s gay youth will never experience. Equal parts a tender tableau of gay teens in America and an elegy to those who are no longer with us, Two Boys Kissing places a historical significance on seemingly simple things that were unforgivable only a few decades before.
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Anais
, October 11, 2019
As more “adult” topics are being masterfully incorporated into literature for younger audiences, from mental health to gun violence and everything in between, it is important not to forget groundbreaking titles like Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (1999), which rooted the necessity of such a text. Speak follows Melinda over the course of a school year, introduced with the implosion of her friend group for unknown reasons. Beyond the fact that the whole school seems to hate her, every detail leading up to that hate is only offered at points in the story where Melinda has worked through them enough to share. Seemingly unmoored from care or attention from classmates or adults, she must learn to heal from trauma on her own. Unintentionally negligent parents, a supportive art teacher, and the free-roaming Beast shape Melinda’s story into one of reclamation and empowerment after a tragedy. Speak is directed toward a high school audience and raises awareness of a commonly taboo subject which Anderson insists can no longer be ignored. To pretend that Melinda’s story does not exist is to silence her and all of the young people who share similar experiences. This book facilitates a much-needed conversation about sexual assault and the process of one person’s recovery in its wake. Melinda’s frustrated voice punches through the narration, despite her limited speaking role. Speak is her unsilencing.
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Carry On
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Rainbow Rowell
Anais
, October 11, 2019
Whether it’s choosing a family or being the “worst Chosen One to ever live,” the question of choice in the face of “destiny” constantly claws its way to the surface throughout Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On (2013). Set in the meta environment of an alternate universe character writing fanfiction about her universe’s Harry Potter, the screw-subtext versions of canonically straight characters, Carry On launches immediately into a rewrite of the final book in the series, relying on readers to fill in the rest. Centered around the “worst Chosen One,” Simon and his suspected vampire of a roommate Baz, the book opens with a world plagued by a powerful magic thief which Simon is destined to defeat. He did not choose to be a Chosen One, though, just as Baz did not choose to be positioned against Simon. As the magical war rushes toward a seemingly destined track, both boys must react or risk the destruction of everything they love. As a response to the heteronormativity of Harry Potter, Carry On offers readers another choice to consider in the world-risking, wizard-school genre, crafted as fanfiction, one of the leading access points for LGBTQIA+ readers to recreate media to see reflections of themselves. While the first half reads as expository-heavy, the popularity of Carry On demonstrated a readership for more LGBTQIA+ literature in the mainstream and set a trilogy in motion.
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