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lunatic rated Rabbit Redux: 4 stars
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
353 p. ; 22 cm
lunatic rated The Grapes of Wrath: 4 stars
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of …
lunatic rated Beautyland: 4 stars
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn’t feel …
lunatic rated The Borrower: 3 stars
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, …
lunatic rated Hello Beautiful: 3 stars
lunatic rated Fugitive Pieces: 5 stars
lunatic rated What I talk about when I talk about running: 3 stars
lunatic rated A Reason to See You Again: 4 stars
lunatic rated Girl, Woman, Other: 4 stars
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives of twelve very different people in Britain, predominantly female and black. Aged 19 to …
lunatic rated Blue Skies: 4 stars
lunatic rated Blue Skies: 3 stars
lunatic rated The Sympathizer: 4 stars
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel and …
lunatic rated Come Closer: 4 stars
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Astonishly addictive, genuinely frightening
Amanda loves her life, her converted loft apartment and her job as an architect. On the …
lunatic rated The Hundred-Year House: 4 stars
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
"A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set …