2016 Want to Read
List created by Eliza S. (enicola818) on Jan 13, 2016
List Votes: 1 Books: 7 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Friends
List created by Eliza S. (enicola818) on Jan 13, 2016
List Votes: 1 Books: 7 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Friends
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Three college buddies, Marina, Danielle, and Julian, are nearing 30, and their dreams of artistic and intellectual success have not panned out. Their lives increasingly revolve around Marina's wealthy father, Murray, the embodiment of what they are striving to be: talented, witty, and... more
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
"Lucid and magnificent." --James McBride, author of The Color of Water "Senna's remarkable first novel [will] cling to your memory. There's Birdie, who takes after her mother's white, New England side of the family--light skin, straight hair. There's her big sister, Cole, who takes after her... more
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
The Fifth Child (Fifth Child, Bk 1) by Doris Lessing
Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside --... more
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University... more
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
Music for Torching by A. M. Homes
As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic. Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that... more
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown tells women how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men. Sexual attitudes may have changed, but the art of being a woman has not.
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Eliza S. (enicola818) |
Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Bk 3) by Patricia Briggs
Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not.
Mercy's loyalty is under pressure from other directions,... more
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