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J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Vladimir Nabokov
September 2013
18
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September 2013
17
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Premise: A socially awkward alien lands Earthside, naked on a Cambridge street…And for a while, as Matt Haig builds from this...
The Humans - Matt Haig
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September 2013
12
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I pride myself on my cynicism. I pin it like a ribbon on the dark clothes I wear to broadcast my angst. So when it comes to R...
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
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September 2013
11
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Orlando; or, The World’s Most Interesting Premise WastedVirginia Woolf has a wild premise for Orlando: a boy living in Elizab...
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
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September 2013
7
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September 2013
06
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When I went to college I was shocked to meet kids who had actually attended boarding school. I had grown up on a steady diet ...
Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld
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September 2013
03
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This summer I started doing more fitnessy activities not in an attempt to lose weight or clear my prematurely blocked arterie...
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
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September 2013
2
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August 2013
31
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August 2013
27
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is the best book I’ve read this year because it made me think and then it made me cry. ...
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
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August 2013
26
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August 2013
25
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I promise to do my best, to do my duty to God, the queen, and to obey the laws of the Eagle Scout troop.That is, unless a cra...
The Troop - Nick Cutter
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August 2013
22
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I feel like I’ve just had my brain matter sucked from my skull through a straw, whipped vigorously by a whisk, baked into a q...
Night Film - Marisha Pessl
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August 2013
19
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Sexist? Feminist? Blah, who cares? September Girls has inspired some extreme opinions for a book that that is the literary eq...
September Girls - Bennett Madison
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August 2013
18
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Love? Or money? You’ve read this story approximately 3,472 times before. But I encourage you to read it again. Lily Bart, a M...
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
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August 2013
11
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Favorites in the collection: Wenlock Edge, Free Radicals, Face, and Child's Play
Too Much Happiness: Stories - Alice Munro
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August 2013
06
reviewed: Eleanor & Park
Eleanor & Park made me want to return to high school. I KNOW.That is an achievement I would have previously believed impossib...
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
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August 2013
03
reviewed: The Cuckoo's Calling
Can you imagine how hard it is to write a good mystery novel? Every reader who cracks open a detective story is trying to pro...
The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov