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• All Creatures Great and Small

  Herriot, James

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  This hilarious memoir of a young veterinarian's fortunes and misfortunes working in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s is a classic feel good read.

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha

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  Winner of the 2018 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella. The first book in a surprisingly funny and humanistic series about a socially anxious security bot.

• Anxious People

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  A desperate would be bank robber inadvertently takes an apartment viewing full of extremely helpful people hostage in this gentle and funny novel.

• A Deadly Education

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi

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  An outcast sorceress must prove herself to suspicious classmates in order to survive a dangerous magic academy in this Dark Academia novel. Suggested because you like A Court of Thorns and Roses.

• The Grace of Kings

  Liu, Ken, 1976-

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  A Nebula Award Nominee and winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel by the translator of the Three Body Problem. First book in the Dandelion Dynasty series.

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  Shaffer, Mary Ann

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  A heartwarming book about islanders who concoct a fake literary and culinary organization to deceive the Germans during the occupation of Guernsey. Suggested because you like Ted Lasso.

• Legends & Lattes

  a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

  Baldree, Travis, 1977-

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  Perhaps the best known representative of the "cozy fantasy" genre, this book follows an Orcish ex adventurer in her efforts to start a city's first coffee shop.

• Leviathan Wakes

  Corey, James S. A.

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  The first book in the best selling Space Opera series The Expanse. Suggested because you like the twists in The Three Body Problem.

• Six of Crows

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  This immensely popular fantasy heist novel follows a crew of outlaws as they attempt to rescue a prisoner from an inquisitorial fortress.

• Same Bed Different Dreams

  a Novel

  Park, Ed, 1970-

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  A dense and challenging but suspenseful and often humorous novel that weaves Korean history into a satirical conspiracy. Suggested because you like the plot twists in The Three Body Problem.

• Spice Road

  Ibrahim, Maiya

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  A magic wielding guardian must track down her missing brother and grapple with truths long hidden by her people in this fantasy novel inspired by Arab culture.

• Twin Crowns

  Doyle, Catherine, 1990-

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  "Twin Crowns cast a spell on me from the very first pages with its glittering blend of harrowing adventure, charming wit, and intricate world-building. Add in delightful romance and two unforgettable narrators, and I was thoroughly bewitched by this…Read moreRead more of this annotation