Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hyped books, redux: in which I cold read short descriptions of books recommended to me and decide whether I’m interested in reading them

books:
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. multiple) (1848)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (trans. Tiina Nunnally) (1920–1922)
The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1931)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa) (1967)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
The Power Broker by Robert Caro (1974)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1989)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (trans. Anthea Bell) (2001)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith) (2007)
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (trans. Frances Riddle) (2007)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2012)
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
The Trio by Johanna Hedman (2022)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (2022)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan (2023)
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (2023)
8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster bu Mirinae Lee (2023)
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (2024)
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton (2025)
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (2025)
Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin (2025)

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