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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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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us...
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Michael Pollan
Michael B Padrick
, June 14, 2018
There is a vast amount of literature on this subject, but Pollan's book is an excellent read: concise, clear and highly personal, it's certainly one of the best. Highly recommended!
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Stoner
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John Edwar Williams
Michael B Padrick
, March 13, 2014
This is - hands down - one of the best novels I have ever read. Stoner's life - an unassuming series of chance events, well-meant but mistaken decisions, conscious and unconscious misunderstandings, and deep passion - is beautifully rendered throughout the book. But it is the final pages - the description of his death - which is the most affecting and beautiful. Don't let the heaviness put you off - it's a masterpiece and wholly worth reading.
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Bleeding Edge
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Thomas Pynchon
Michael B Padrick
, September 19, 2013
Pynchon's latest novel does not disappoint - and though not to everyone's taste, it's everything you want in a Pynchon novel: paranoia, surrealism, a skewed view of reality and riff after riff that makes you scratch your head and wonder, "How does he keep on doing it?" Brilliant.
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Tabby Mctat
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Julia Donaldson
Michael B Padrick
, July 30, 2012
One of the very best children's books - never a dull moment, funny and knowing - and one you have no problem reading again and again (and again)! Highly recommended!
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East of Eden
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John Steinbeck
Michael B Padrick
, April 18, 2011
Despite being an avid reader of 20th Century American fiction, I cannot believe I've not read this until now. An outstanding book - epic in all senses of the word. Steinbeck's novel is so 'modern' it's hard to remember it was written in the 1950s and not in the past decade. Highly recommended.
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Remainder
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Tom Mccarthy
Michael B Padrick
, January 26, 2011
One of the strangest - and one of the best - books I've read in years. Hands down: if you like your fiction thoughtful, this book is certainly for you. Excellent.
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C
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Tom Mccarthy
Michael B Padrick
, January 12, 2011
One of my favourite books of the past year, C is a strangely-engrossing tale in which the main character serves primarily as a commentary about the first quarter of the 20th Century, the emergence of technology, and our reliance upon it. Despite these themes - or because of them - the book will grab you from the beginning and never let you go. The comments and acclaims re McCarthy's novel being a challenge to the form itself are entirely justified. A very, very good read.
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