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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion
★★★★· Published 1968· 256 pages· read 2023
Didion's essays on 1960s California, cool and precise and a little chilling. The prose everyone's still trying to copy.
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Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
Isaac Asimov
The Mule arrives and blows up Seldon's tidy plan for the galaxy. The most gripping stretch of the trilogy.
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
Isaac Asimov
The hunt for the hidden Second Foundation, with the Mule still looming. Asimov's ideas carry you right along.
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
A young Chilean woman stows away to Gold Rush California chasing her lover. Allende at her sweeping, romantic best.