The Festival of Insignificance
The trivial moments in life often hold greater meaning than grand events? Find out here.
fiction
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Trust
A tale that revolves around a wealthy financier, Benjamin Rask, and his enigmatic wife, Helen.
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The Dog of the South
Ray Midge, a bean counter in Arkansas, is our leading man and narrator. One day, his wife leaves him for Guy Dupree, but what's worse is that she takes his car.
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My Brilliant Friend
August book club selection
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.
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Ms Ice Sandwich
A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.
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Stella Maris
Plenty of philosophical themes in this patient - psychologist dialogue
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The Passenger
Really well done multiple personality disorder character. Also a side mystery
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Passing
Two light-skinned Black women from the same neighborhood follow very different trajectories in life and one day reconnect.
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Thursday Murder Club
Retirees spend Thursdays solving old mysteries for enjoyment.
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We
The book that influenced Orwell, Huxley and Rand.
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Effi Briest
Set in 19th-century Germany, the story follows the life of Effi Briest
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The Pole
A Polish pianist with an unpronounceable last name (let's call him W) comes
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Convenience Store Woman
The novel revolves around Keiko Furukura, a socially awkward woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years.
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The Nickel Boys
A chilling novel based on a true story, which begins with hope and ends in tragedy.
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My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty
“My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty” is a Murakami short story that first appeared in The New Yorker ( my-cheesecake-shaped-poverty.pdf ). This very short story is part of The New Yorker’s flash fiction series, so it’s unlikely it is more than 1000 words. The time is 1973. A young newlywed couple desires to move into their first home. They don’t have much money, so the estate agent looks them up and down and hesitantly takes them to the “Triangle Zone” property. It...
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The Bear
The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.
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The Glass Hotel
Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette.
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed is about a planet and its moon and the clashing cultures…
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Lucy By the Sea
The novel begins with William Barton visiting his ex-wife in NYC as the COVID-19 epidemic begins.
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The Lives of Animals
A work tha explores the moral and ethical dimensions of animal suffering.
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Fifth Business
The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay's life.
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Liberation Day
A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair,
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is a thought-provoking dystopian novel written…
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The Box Man
An eerie and evocative masterpiece with a nameless protagonist.
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Small Things Like These
An eventful Christmas in a small Irish town.
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To Have and Have Not
Hemingway's _To Have and Have Not_ is a commentary on the time of The Great Depression told from multiple viewpoints.
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Emma
Emma is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. So, it's fun.
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Sula
Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
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Honeymoon
Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.