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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
★★★★· Published 2002· 560 pages· read 2018
A Victorian con to swindle an heiress, and then a twist that flips the whole thing. Waters plots like a magician.
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The life of a geisha in pre-war Kyoto, lush with detail. Immersive and hard to put down.
★ 5A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
Richard Peck
A boy and his sister spend summers with their larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel in small-town Illinois. So funny.