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yams rated The Remains of the Day: 4 stars
yams rated Empire of Pain: 4 stars
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book …
yams rated The Secret History: 5 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …
yams rated The Glass Hotel: 3 stars
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
yams rated A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: 4 stars
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA …
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
yams rated Everything Is Illuminated: 5 stars
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to …
yams rated The Deficit Myth: 5 stars
The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about …
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and …
Banana Yoshimoto: Asleep (2001, Faber and Faber)
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, …
yams rated The Alchemist: 1 star
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of …
yams rated The Great Alone: 4 stars
yams rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 3 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …