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Archived reading lists, links, data, knowledge, information, flotsam, jetsam

An effort at data redundancy and refrenece in the tilting plane

• Moya Lothian-McLean - 100 books to read on holiday
• Mongrel Hanako Footman Mongrel is a hypnotic, haunting exploration of identity and womanhood. A darkly lush tale of three women in search of connection'
• The Wedding People Alison Espach A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.'
• Kala Colin Walsh A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer.
• The Wager David Grann A mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. (non-fiction)
• The Gentleman from Peru Andre Aciman "A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. "
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is a warm, funny, refreshingly honest and affectionate look at Black women's lives, loves, struggles and hardship.
• Dune Frank Herbert Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world.
• Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman Malidoma Patrice Some A powerful spiritual autobiography of a walker between indigenous and modern worlds. (non-fiction)
• Dancer from the Dance Andrew Holleran Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene.
• Just Kids Patti Smith Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. (non-fiction)
• All Fours Miranda July An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.
• Giovanni's Room James Baldwin Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
• The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it.
• Horse Crazy Gary Indiana A love story set in the age of AIDS, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-old writer's obsession with a beautiful, young would-be artist and former junkie.
• Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her.
• Martyr! Kaveh Akbar A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret.
• Slum Virgin! Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Slum Virgin tells the larger-than-life story of Cleopatra, a trans woman who renounces prostitution after the Virgin Mary appears before her.
• Dream Count! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream Count is a powerful and compelling narrative that explores the lives of contemporary African women in diverse circumstances and situations.
• When the Cranes Fly South Lisa Ridzén Bo is determined to live his own life in his own way. But his son has other ideas.
• I Am God Giacomo Sartori Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.
• The Rachel Incident Caroline O'Donoghue A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three.
• The Bombshell Darrow Farr A young woman's radicalization sparks a widespread movement and media frenzy in this explosive novel of youthful passion, political awakening and first love.
• Open Heaven Seán Hewitt Open, Heaven tells the story of James as he returns to the countryside he grew up in to reminisce on the year he spent meeting and falling in love with Luke.
• Flesh David Szalay Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London
• Darryl Jackie Ess Jackie Ess's debut novel Darryl is in the tradition of disaffected white men who are weird about sex, skewered from the outside.
• Creation Lake Rachel Kushner An American spy infiltrates a commune of eco-activists in France in this Booker-listed exploration of ideology and sensation.
• The Deep Rivers Solomon The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future
• Bring the House Down Charlotte Runcie A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with.
• Three Days in June Anne Tyler A socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.
• The Interestings Meg Wolitzer The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
• The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
• A Family Matter Claire Lynch A woman is forced to rethink her childhood after she learns that her mother was denied custody, in a decade blighted by homophobia.
• Piglet Lottie Hazell A bride-to-be is forced to confront the ugliness of her desires in this food-filled debut of class and ambition.
• Heartburn Nora Ephron Heartburn is an autobiographical novel based on Nora Ephron's marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, her second husband. (non-fiction)
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E Schwab A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family's estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London.
• Disappoint Me Nicola Dinan A funny, moving and poignant exploration of modern romance and the allure of domesticity.
• Will and Testament Vigdis Hjorth Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed
• The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi The tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family's struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious.
• Penance Eliza Clark Penance is a fictional true-crime account of the torture and murder of a 16 year old girl at the hands of three of her classmates.
• She's Always Hungry Eliza Clark These 11 stories revolve around food, sex, gender, power and the body; they veer from realism to sci-fi, fairytale, horror and post-apocalyptic dystopia.
• Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel A whirlwind of screwball comedy, murder and friendship that examines the cannibalisation of experience to feed social media.
• First Born Maureen Duffy The tale of the first human/gorilla hybrid, from his birth and growth to his inevitable end. vThe First Bad Man Miranda July Multiplying weirdness becomes unamusing absurdity in the film-maker's sentimental tale of a misfit's quest for love.
• In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado Carmen Maria Machado's account of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her 'petite, blond, Harvard graduate' lover is horrifying but beguiling. (non-fiction)
• The Book of Revelation Rupert Thomson A young man is abducted while on his way to buy a packet of cigarettes for his girlfriend.
• Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan.
• Cleopatra and Frankenstein Coco Mellors An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.
• Waist Deep "Linea Maja Ernst" Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days.
• Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano It is a drama about the four sisters in an Italian Catholic family in Chicago; two sisters fall in love with the same man, causing the family to split apart.
• The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love.
• The Husbands Holly Gramazio One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he's right.
• The Little Friend Donna Tartt In the mid-1960s, on Mother's Day, Robin, the nine-year-old son of the Dufresnes, a white family living in Mississippi, is found hanging from a tree on the family property.
• Rejection Tony Tulathimutte An electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.
• Ghost Lover Lisa Taddeo Lisa Taddeo skilfully examines themes of ageing, desire, obsession, beauty, worry and pain: life in all its dark, awful brutality.
• We All Want Impossible Things Catherine Newman This is the story of two women and their life long friendship and what happens when one of those women is about to die
• You Be Mother Meg Mason The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family.
• Consider Yourself Kissed Jessica Stanley A literary love story told through ten years in the life of one woman as she tries to build a longed-for family without also losing herself.
• Lote Shola von Reinhold A forgotten black modernist poet is the spark for a debut novel that acts as a rallying cry against Eurocentrism.
• I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman 39 women and a young girl are locked in an underground cage until their captors disappear and they escape into a desolate, unfamiliar world.
• Milk Fed Melissa Broder ‘Milk Fed’ is about twenty four year old Rachel. She’s a lapsed Jew, obsessed with calorie counting and not getting fat, has serious mummy issues and she’s falling in love with Miriam, an Orthodox Jewish woman who has just started manning the counter at her favourite frozen yoghurt place.
• Sorrow + Bliss Meg Mason Tackling the issue of long-term mental illness with wit and candour, Mason's remarkable novel takes a rounded, empathetic look at the condition.
• The Guest Emma Cline A con artist stranded in Long Island after her rich boyfriend breaks up with her, needing to make ends meet before she crashes his Labor Day party to try and win him back.
• The Vegetarian Han Kang The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
• Whale Fall Elizabeth O'Connor In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores.
• The Women Kirsten Hannah The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.
• Salt Slow Julia Armfield Strange things happen in Julia Armfield's debut collection of stories. Lovers turn to stone or rise from the dead.
• Our Wives Under The Sea Julia Armfield A woman returns to her wife transformed after a deep-sea voyage in this powerful debut novel.
• Roadside Picnic Arkady and Boris Strugatsky A story about the aftermath of humanity's first contact with alien life.
• Dark Eden Chris Beckett The novel explores the disintegration of a small group of a highly inbred people, descendants of two individuals whose spaceship crashed on a rogue planet they call Eden.
• Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent.
• Orbital Samantha Harvey A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body.
• The Guest Lecture Martin Riker In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter.
• Scaffolding Lauren Elkin The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.
• Writers and Lovers Lily King Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
• Hot Milk Deborah Levy Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness.
• Good Girl Anna Fitzpatrick Billed as "Secretary meets Fleabag," follows Lucy, an aspiring Toronto writer in her 20s, as she attempts to navigate friendships, work, dating and sex — all of which are profoundly affected by her desire for approval.
• On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time.
• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over Anne de Marcken Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ― how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost?
• Expectation Anna Hope Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be
• The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner An incredible novel about the nuns of a convent in England in the middle ages.
• Caledonian Road Andrew O'Hagan A state-of-the-nation novel set in contemporary London, focusing on the public and private downfall of Campbell Flynn, a fifty-something Scottish art historian.
• My Phantoms Gwendoline Riley An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life.
• Butter Asako Yuzuki The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case.
• Pleasure Beach Helen Palmer Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West's saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day.
• Mornings in Jenin Susan Abulhawa A multi-generational novel about a Palestinian family who are forcibly removed from their village by Israeli settlers.
• Paul Takes The Form of a Mortal Girl Andrea Lawlor A shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle.
• Number9Dream Andrew Mitchell Set in Japan, the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father.
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design.
• Summer Edith Wharton A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts
• Gain Richard Powers Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer.
• I'm a Fan Sheena Patel I'm A Fan tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship.
• Flights Olga Tokarczuk Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.
• Ordinary Saints Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin An exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
• Realm of the Elderlings Robin Hobb Fantasy series; initially the coming-of-age story of a young man named Fitz and is a deeply emotional and complex coming of age narrative.
• The Names by Florence Knapp Florence Knapp Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name.
• The Double José Saramago Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control.
• The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love.
• Beasts of a Little Land Juhea Kim Follows the lives of a girl named Jade, who is sold at the age of ten as an apprentice to a courtesan, and JungHo, the impoverished boy who befriends her.
• Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programme.
• excel dj / d hannen - sci fi and words that feel like a new future
  • Everything for everyone: an oral history of the new york commune, 2052-2072 - M E O'Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
  • The ministry for the future - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • A psalm for the wild-built - Becky Chambers
  • Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
  • Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
  • Parable of the sower - Octavia E Butler
  • The fifth sacred thing - Starhawk
  • The dispossessed - Ursula k le Guin
  • The word for world is forest - Ursula k le Guin
  • Octavia's brood - Adrienne Maree Brown
  • Woman on the edge of time - Marge Piercy
  • Half-earth socialism - Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass
  • Arboreality - Rebecca Campbell
  • Solarpunk compilations
  • Future primitive: the new ecotopias - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Blindsight - Peter Watts
  • Oval - Eliva Wilk
  • The vorrh - Brian Catling
  • 17776 - Jon Bois
  • Red Planets - ed. Mark Bould & China Mieville
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