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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
4 stars
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation …
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5 stars
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye, IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ …
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4 stars
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
4 stars
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying …