13 reviews 6 DEPENDS · 7 YES Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 Anyone willing to spend a long time in an intentionally unpleasant thought experiment will find plenty here. The world does not become better just because nobody can see it DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 I finished Demon Copperhead feeling impressed, sad and slightly battered. A boy cannot carry an entire county YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson · 2022 I liked the first half most when the book stayed close to Frankie and Zeke making the thing. A Poster, a Panic and the Problem of Letting Go YES
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 That is a less decorative lesson than the romance, and probably the one I will remember longer. The Best Argument I’ve Read About Being Wrong YES
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  LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Queen Birgitta Trotzig · 1985 I finished Queen, but I would not recommend it to anyone looking for an efficient historical novel with a clear arc. A hard book about what happens when strength becomes a prison DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Set This House in Order Matt Ruff · 2003 But the ambition is matched by real attention to practical detail. A House Built from Damage YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 I would recommend it to readers who can tolerate a novel that takes its time and then takes even more time. A Very Long Book About Escape, Work, and What It Costs DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 I finished The Covenant of Water with a complicated response. A Family History That Refuses to Stay Neat DEPENDS
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980 I found it demanding, funny, grim and much more alive than its reputation as a scholarly puzzle suggests. A Library Designed to Keep You Out YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 It is a moving novel, but it is also a very managed one. The War Is Real. The Emotional Machinery Is Showing. YES
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable The Spare Man Mary Robinette Kowal · 2022 The Spare Man is a warm, funny, occasionally exhausting science-fiction mystery about people trying to retain control of their own bodies and information inside an expensive machine designed to control both. A Murder Mystery With Excellent Dogs, Bad Security, and One Very Long Honeymoon YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 There is a good book inside this one, especially in the practical scenes where people make, repair, read, travel, work and pay attention to one another. A Kind Book That Does Not Trust You to Feel It DEPENDS
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 I would recommend the book to people who enjoy long philosophical detours, technical detail and an unreliable narrator who gradually becomes the subject of his own argument. A good argument buried under too many of them DEPENDS

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