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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★· Published 2005· 288 pages
Boarding-school kids whose purpose slowly, quietly reveals itself. Devastating in the calmest possible way.
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The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
An Irish family unravels one member at a time, each section funnier and sadder than the last, building to an ending I'm still not over. Long but I inhaled it.
★ 5Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver reworks David Copperfield into Appalachia and the opioid crisis, and it's devastating. That kid's voice will wreck you.
★ 5Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The story behind the death of Shakespeare's son, centered on his wife. Luminous. I cried.