Books I got recommended on the fediverse, in particular in response to this toot: toot.cat/@plexus/113942068807855867
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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
5 stars
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career …
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To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas (A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, #2)
4 stars
When a bomb destroys the Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point to the increasingly brazen factions of …
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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
4 stars
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross
4 stars
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he …
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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Rob Inglis, Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle (1))
4 stars
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to …
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Presents an imaginative tale rooted in early nineteenth-century German Romanticism that explores parallels between the origin legend of the famous …
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The haunted mesa by Louis L'Amour
4 stars
The Haunted Mesa begins near a mesa so forbidding neither Indian nor white man chooses to live in its shadow. …
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Clan of the Cave Bear, The (Earth's Children®) by Jean M. Auel (Earth's Children, No. 1)
4 stars
Book 1 of the Earth's Children® Series
In this first book of the beloved Earth's Children® series, Jean M. …
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (FF Classics)
4 stars
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
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The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.The novel …
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
3 stars
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those …
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4 stars
The daring, dazzling, and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song Of Achilles that briliantly reimagines …
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Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton
3 stars
There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in …
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4 stars
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by …
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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus
4 stars
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and “Kitchen,” the dazzling English-language …
