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In no order, my recommendations (to you personally!) are
Margaret Atwood — Oryx & Crake Ann Leckie — the Raven Tower Kazuo Ishiguro — the Buried Giant Ursula Leguin — the Left Hand of Darkness Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone — This Is How You Lose The Time War
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jordan rated Saving Time: 3 stars
Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying …
jordan rated Hegel in 90 minutes: 4 stars
jordan rated Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life: 4 stars
jordan rated Norse Mythology: 4 stars
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long …
jordan rated The English Understand Wool: 5 stars
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Storybook ND)
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais …
jordan rated Too Like the Lightning: 4 stars
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
jordan rated Chaos Under Heaven: 5 stars
jordan rated To the Lighthouse: 2 stars
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …
jordan rated The Last Samurai: 5 stars
jordan rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
jordan rated Red Team Blues: 5 stars
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
jordan rated The Cyberiad: 5 stars
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (A Continuum book)
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw …