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Every book you have logged. Recommended yes means a read rated four stars or higher, including halves and quarters.
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
4Friendship is the engine. I recommend it without pretending it is subtle.
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
4½I kept the map in my head for days. Lonely in the best way.
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The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin · 2015
4¾The structure pays off. I already want the rest of the trilogy.
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- Recommended no
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
3¼Tender and thin. Not the Ishiguro I reach for first.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
4¾The cold is the point. Genly and Estraven, and the way the book refuses an easy moral.
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Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
3½I believed them and still wanted more air in the room.
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
5Hard to hold, and I would not want it easier.
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
4¼Stevens never says the thing. Four and a quarter feels exact — almost perfect, slightly withheld.
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Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
3¾A beautiful voice, a little smooth where I wanted it to cut.
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