Florian rated The Mirror & the Light: 4 stars
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, …
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Florian rated The Gates of Europe: 4 stars
The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires – Roman …
Florian rated Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth: 3 stars
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
A collection of Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts dealing with events from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the …
Florian rated Dune (Dune Chronicles #1): 3 stars
Dune (Dune Chronicles #1) by Frank Herbert
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
Florian rated Beautiful World, Where Are You: 5 stars
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Three friends and a hanger-on gradually coalesce into two couples.
Florian rated The Silmarillion: 4 stars
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative …
Florian rated Moving Fast: 4 stars
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, …
Florian rated Conversations With Friends: 5 stars
Florian rated Bring Up the Bodies: 4 stars
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, #2)
Florian rated Crying in H Mart: 5 stars
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
Michelle Zauner tells of growing …
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to …
Florian rated Erste Person Singular: 4 stars
Erste Person Singular by Haruki Murakami, Ursula Gräfe
Frauen, die verschwinden, eine fiktive Bossa-Nova-Platte von Charlie Parker, ein sprechender Affe und ein Mann, der sich fragt, wie er …
Florian rated The Beauty of the Husband: 3 stars
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story …
Florian rated Perhaps the Stars: 5 stars
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #4)
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book …