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Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
A playful and practical book packed with skills, knowledge, and jokes for boyhood, from survival and map reading to looking at the stars. It works as a handbook while also carrying a strong sense of nostalgia for childhood.
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
A critical study that questions the framework through which Chinese American literature is read.
Per Petterson
A novel in which an older man recalls a childhood summer and gradually uncovers family secrets, friendship, and loss. Its close attention to nature and memory gives the book its emotional shape.
Thom Gunn
The Man with Night Sweats is a poetry collection that moves through illness, intimacy, and mortality. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Robert Wilson
A Small Death in Lisbon is a 1999 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Ian Mcewan
A highly restrained psychological novel about a newly married couple facing each other on the Dorset coast. Unspoken anxiety and desire create an irreversible distance in a very short span of time.
Mohsin Hamid
An allegorical monologue about alienation and self-redefinition after 9/11, told through a Pakistani man who once seemed to have everything to lose.
Philip Reeve
A historical fantasy that reconstructs the Arthurian legend by foregrounding the politics of power and storytelling. Seen through a boy's perspective, the myth becomes more ambiguous and more human.
Maria Mazziotti Gillian
A poetry collection that ties together family, memory, and the Italian American experience.
Kathleen Karr
Set in 1896 Europe, the novel follows two brothers who are pulled into an international conspiracy while chasing a missing servant and stolen art.
Anatole France, Andrew Moore
A novel in diary form follows the elderly scholar Sylvestre Bonnard as he pursues a rare ecclesiastical manuscript from Paris to Sicily and is tested by the tension between his love of books and his conscience. Beneath the quiet wit and irony runs a warm regard for intelligence and tolerance.
Judith Roche
A lyric collection that links bodily feeling, the salmon cycle, and the passage of time.