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VPL -Books Just For You -Literature and Some Literary Science Fiction

This Books Just For You personalized reading list was prepared for a Vancouver Public Library staff member for a reader whose favorite books include Genesis by Bernard Beckett, A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir, and My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.

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  • A novel about two young girls growing up in post World War II France. Suggested because you like My Brilliant Friend.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
  • A translation of a Hungarian literary classic set in the communist era about a writer and the housekeeper she becomes dependent on.
    Book, 2005London : Harvill Secker, 2005.
  • Early Bird Books suggests this novel for viewers who liked the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend.
    Book, 2018New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2018.
  • This Italian novel from the 1950s was translated by the same translator as The Neapolitan Quartet.
    Book, 2023New York : Astra House, [2023]
  • A group of women who were friends in college are brought back together by the passing of one of their number.
    Book, 1991San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, c1982.
  • This dystopian science fiction novel avoids easy answers as it explores the human psyche. Suggested because you like Genesis by Bernard Beckett.
    Book, 2013Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013.
  • This literary science fiction novel won multiple awards including the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.
    Book, 2005Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2005.
  • A classic dystopian science fiction novel.
    Book, 2003Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2003.
  • Suggested because you like Elena Ferrante.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
  • A theatre troupe travels in the aftermath of a devastating plague in this literary science fiction novel.
    Book, 2014Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubilshers Ltd., [2014]
  • Suggested because you liked A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir.
    Book, 2007New York : Vintage Books, [2007]