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Astonish Me
Maggie Shipstead
★★★★· Published 2014· 261 pages
A ballet novel spanning defection, ambition, and a secret that reshapes a family. Shipstead writes dancers so well you feel the strain.
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★ 5Great Circle
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A daring female aviator and the actress playing her decades later. Sweeping and immersive — I loved every page.
★ 5Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A strange, beautiful novel about a man who lives alone in a labyrinthine house filled with statues and tidal halls… and slowly comes to realize he doesn’t know who he is or how he got there. It’s unlike anything else, and somehow both deeply weird and deeply moving.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Enormous and ambitious — generations of one Black American family threaded through centuries of history. Worth the commitment.