The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter …
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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, …
kataract rated Disorientation: 4 stars
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. …
kataract rated Motherhood: 4 stars
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the …
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the …
kataract rated American Woman: 5 stars
kataract rated Pure Colour: 4 stars
kataract rated Sea of Tranquility: 4 stars
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
kataract rated Second Place: 5 stars
kataract rated How Should a Person Be?: 4 stars
kataract rated The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: 5 stars
kataract rated No One Is Talking About This: 4 stars
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts …
kataract rated Jade Legacy: 5 stars
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (Green Bone Saga, #3)
Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted …