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  • 31. White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000)

    Zadie Smith’s White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London

    One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing – among many other things – with friendship, love, war,…[Read more]

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    I’m not stating anything original when I say 2020 was a weird year, stressful and filled with distractions. My goal for 2021 is admittedly ambitious: I aim to start a new book every Monday (except November when NaNoWriMo takes my time). I’m curious to see how this goes. With more than 200 books on my …
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  • 30. The President Is Missing – Bill Clinton and James Patterson

    The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself…[Read more]

  • jameskearl completed the requirement “Reply to topics 15 times” of the activity rank Cub Reporter 2 years, 7 months ago

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    I’m not stating anything original when I say 2020 was a weird year, stressful and filled with distractions. My goal for 2021 is admittedly ambitious: I aim to start a new book every Monday (except November when NaNoWriMo takes my time). I’m curious to see how this goes. With more than 200 books on my …
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  • 29. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie (2015)

    From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginative novel of his great career, which blends history and myth with tremendous philosophical depth. A masterful, mesmerizing modern tale about worlds dangerously colliding, the…[Read more]

  • jameskearl completed the requirement “Reply to topics 15 times” of the activity rank Cub Reporter 2 years, 7 months ago

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    I’m not stating anything original when I say 2020 was a weird year, stressful and filled with distractions. My goal for 2021 is admittedly ambitious: I aim to start a new book every Monday (except November when NaNoWriMo takes my time). I’m curious to see how this goes. With more than 200 books on my …
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  • 28. True Grit – Charles Portis (1968)

    Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award® winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers.

    True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ro…[Read more]

  • jameskearl completed the requirement “Reply to topics 15 times” of the activity rank Cub Reporter 2 years, 8 months ago

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  • 27. Call for the Dead – John le Carré (1961)

    George Smiley is no one’s idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he’s such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only h…[Read more]

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  • 26. This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019)

    HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA

    NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA

    “[An] exquisitely crafted tale…Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with c…[Read more]

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  • 25. The Medusa Frequency – Russell Hoban (1987)

    When his creative juices dry up, writer Herman Orff abandons serious novels for comic books. In despair, he tries an acquaintance’s electronic device for brain galvanizing and is rewarded by several strange visions of the head of Orpheus, with whom Orff and other characters in the novel are…[Read more]

  • jameskearl completed the requirement “Reply to topics 15 times” of the activity rank Cub Reporter 2 years, 9 months ago

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  • 24. We’ll All Be Burnt In Our Beds Some Night – Joel Thomas Hynes (2017)

    Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years in a maximum-security prison, Johnny knows this might just be the end of…[Read more]

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  • 23. The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones (2020)

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled “one of 2020’s buzziest horror novels” (Entertainment Weekly), this is a…[Read more]

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  • 22. Dead Astronauts – Jeff VanderMeer (2019)

    A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

    Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth — all the Earths.

    A…[Read more]

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