My all-time favourite books (so far)
Discover my all-time favorite books (so far)! Explore a curated list of must-read titles that have captivated me, from timeless classics to modern masterpieces.
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Weaveworld
by Clive Barker
Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world --- and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror -- a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.
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Vernon God Little
by D. B. C. Pierre
After a school shooting where sixteen kids are shot Vernon Little's best friend turns the gun on himself, leaving Vernon to be accused as an accessory to murder.
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In the Name of Salomé
by Julia Alvarez
A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila HenrĂquez-Ureña, a teacher whose mother was SalomĂ© Ureña, famous nineteenth-century political poet from the Dominican Republic.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
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Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina GarcĂa
âImpressive . . . [Cristina GarcĂaâs] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the âsustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,â as rhythmic as the music of Beny MorĂ©.ââTime Cristina GarcĂaâs acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a countryâs revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is âa work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquezâ (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novelâs original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban âRemarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.ââSan Francisco Chronicle âCaptures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.ââThe Washington Post âBrilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, GarcĂa just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.ââThe Denver Post
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą ONE OF TIME MAGAZINEâS 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canât resistâbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. âThe kind of book that can be life-changing.â âThe New York Times âDeserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.â âUSA Today DONâT MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAKâS FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
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Geographies of Home
by Loida Maritza Perez
After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children, and a third sister has simply disappeared. In this dislocating urban environment Iliana reluctantly confronts the anger and desperation that seem to seep through every crack of her family's small house, and experiences all the contradictions, superstitions, joys, and pains that come from a life caught between two cultures. In this magnificent debut novel, filled with graceful prose and searing detail, Loida Maritza PĂ©rez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family--and home.
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER âą From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the worldâs greatest storytellers comes âan insistently metaphysical mind-benderâ (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. âAs powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.ââChicago Tribune
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Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Anne Proulxâs The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a âhead shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,â is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyleâs Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the familyâs unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and itâs easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumphâin the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true loverâs knot.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future. "From the Paperback edition.