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Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
★★★★★· Published 2021· 352 pages· read 2023
1950s England, a lonely journalist, and a woman claiming a virgin birth. Quiet, tender, and it wrecked me.
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Shy Creatures
Clare Chambers
A mute man with a waist-length beard, hidden away for decades, is finally discovered and taken to a psychiatric hospital, where an art therapist becomes determined to learn his story. Based on a true case, and so tender about kindness.
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad as a literal railroad beneath the ground. A brutal, inventive novel that earns every bit of its acclaim.
★ 5Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The story behind the death of Shakespeare's son, centered on his wife. Luminous. I cried.