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• Uprooted

  Novik, Naomi

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  Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, The British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel. Recommended for fans of Alix E. Harrow. "Novik's use of language is supremely skillful as she weaves a tale that is both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fantasy. Recommended for fans of Alix E. Harrow. "The worldbuilding is rock solid, the plot is propulsive, and readers will be clamoring for a sequel as soon as they read the last page." -- Library…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nettle & Bone

  Kingfisher, T.

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  Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Recommended for fans of Alix E. Harrow. "This deeply satisfying and darkly funny feminist fairy tale from Hugo Award winner Kingfisher (What Moves the Dead) finds its unlikely heroine in Marra, youngest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tale for the Time Being

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Canada-Japan Literary Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize. Recommended for fans of Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. "Ozeki adeptly intertwines past and present while weaving bits of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Recommended for fans of Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. "This superbly told tale is sure to be recognized as one of the year's most inventive novels." -- Publishers Weekly

• Cloud Atlas

  a Novel

  Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

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  Winner of the Literary Fiction Awards at the British Book Awards. Recommended for fans of Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. "At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Remains of the Day

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  Winner of the Booker Prize. Recommended for fans of The English Patient. "Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates on the past and inadvertently slackens his rigid grip on his emotions to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Side of the Story

  a Novel

  De Céspedes, Alba, 1911-1997

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  Considered a classic work of feminist fiction, this novel was recently translated into English. Like The English Patient, its' prose is lyrical, and its characters complex. "A revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration……Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

  a Novel

  Marra, Anthony

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  Winner of The California Book Awards for First Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Recommended for fans of The English Patient. "Marra's sobering, complex debut intertwines the stories of a handful of characters at the end of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation