en-US Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:11:23 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 53422863 416 Elena Ferrante enzoreads 3 3.53 2019
author: Elena Ferrante
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maybe c’est vraiment un homme Elena ferrante au final c’est quoi ça
]]> 201447448 Une autrice bestseller du Sunday times, avec plus de 700 000 lecteurs conquis, qui est aussi laurĂ©ate du prix Crime Fiction Book of the Year (Fiction policiĂšre de l’annĂ©e) Ă  l'An Post Irish Book Awards 2021, Irlande.

Une adaptation de Toutes Ses Fautes en mini-série est prévue par les studios Universal.

UN GARÇON DISPARAIT : Marissa Irvine arrive au 14 Tudor Grove, avec l’intention de rĂ©cupĂ©rer son jeune fils Milo, qui joue pour la premiĂšre fois chez un garçon de sa nouvelle Ă©cole. Mais la femme qui rĂ©pond Ă  la porte n’est pas la mĂšre qu’elle connaĂźt. Ce n’est pas non plus la nounou. Et Milo n’est pas chez elle. C’est ainsi que commence le pire cauchemar de tous les parents.

QUATRE SUSPECTES : Alors que la nouvelle de la disparition se rĂ©pand dans la paisible banlieue de Dublin et qu’un suspect inattendu apparaĂźt, des rumeurs commencent Ă  se rĂ©pandre sur les femmes les plus Ă©troitement liĂ©es Ă  cet Ă©vĂ©nement tragique. Car seule l’une d’entre elles a pu avoir enlevĂ© Milo - mais elles pourraient toutes ĂȘtre coupables...

DANS UNE COMMUNAUTÉ PLEINE DE SECRETS, QUI EST VRAIMENT EN TORT ?

« CaptivĂ©e dĂšs la premiĂšre page... l’autrice a jouĂ© sur mes pires angoisses et n’a eu de cesse de faire monter le suspense... » Sarah Pearse, autrice best-seller du Sanatorium (Le livre de Poche)
« Un thriller domestique délicieusement mystérieux et cauchemardesque. » Emma Curtis, autrice best-seller
« Un coup de cƓur pour une autrice au sommet de son art » Claire Allan, autrice best-seller]]> 364 Andrea Mara 2487149027 enzoreads 5 4.19 2021
author: Andrea Mara
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average rating: 4.19
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rating: 5
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]]> 3133387 192 Yang Gui-ja 1885445261 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.28 1998
author: Yang Gui-ja
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]]> 41220879 448 Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam enzoreads 0 to-read 3.48 2018
author: Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
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]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.69 2025
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]]> 171056 256 Robert Plunket 0060922265 enzoreads 4 3.60 1992
author: Robert Plunket
name: enzoreads
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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ptdrrr moi dans ma delulu era
]]> 51587 The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.]]> 263 Dennis Cooper 0786716746 enzoreads 0 3.79 2004
author: Dennis Cooper
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average rating: 3.79
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je sais mĂȘme pas quoi vous dire Ă  part que je suis traumatisĂ© et que c’est la chose la plus dĂ©routante et dĂ©goĂ»tante et infĂąme que j’ai lu de ma vie et que je rĂ©flĂ©chirai Ă  deux fois avant de prendre un livre alĂ©atoire Ă  la librairie pcq qu’un mec qui s’appelle Luke a Ă©crit sur un petit bout de carton que c’était son livre de l’annĂ©e. Malade va
]]> 62365905 Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son--perfect for Newsies shippers.

Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city's biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can't let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy.

Andy Fleming's newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He's barely able to run his life--he's never paid a bill on time, routinely gets lost on the way to work, and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics. Andy agrees to work for a year in the newsroom, knowing he'll make an ass of himself and hate every second of it.

Except, Nick Russo keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the ancient filing cabinets. Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into feelings they can't deny. But what feels possible in secret--this fragile, tender thing between them--seems doomed in the light of day. Now Nick and Andy have to decide if, for the first time, they're willing to fight.]]> 384 Cat Sebastian 0063272768 enzoreads 4 4.25 2023
author: Cat Sebastian
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average rating: 4.25
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rating: 4
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]]> 23942 160 William S. Burroughs 0330300164 enzoreads 2 ok 3.57 1985
author: William S. Burroughs
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average rating: 3.57
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rating: 2
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ok
]]> 57615568
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century.

Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.]]> 576 Vladislav M. Zubok 0300257309 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.24
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]]> 1971304
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.]]> 258 David Benioff 0670018708 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.28 2008
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]]> 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X enzoreads 5 4.22 2020
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average rating: 4.22
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c’était parfait je peux rien vous dire de plus c’était juste parfait et j’en veux 10 comme ça toute suite
]]> 58484070 Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Named "this summer's most powerful LGBTQ+ novel" by GAY TIMES, this book is perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. K. Choi.

Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date—and the guy is cute. Heart racing, Adam accepts, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised.

Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When he comes to New York City, Ben’s sexuality begins to feel less like a secret and more like a badge of honor.

Then Callum disappears, leaving Adam heartbroken, and Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. When Adam finally tracks Callum down, he learns the guy he loves is very ill. And in a chance meeting near the hospital where Callum is being treated, Ben and Adam meet, forever changing each other’s lives. As both begin to open their eyes to the possibilities of queer love and life, they realize sometimes the only people who can help you are the people who can really see you—in all your messy glory.

A love letter to New York and the liberating power of queer friendship, When You Call My Name is a hopeful novel about the pivotal moments of our youth that break our hearts and the people who help us put them back together.]]> 368 Tucker Shaw 125062486X enzoreads 3 4.20 2022
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average rating: 4.20
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c’était cute ! prĂ©visible et pas trĂšs deep mais pour du YA super sympa et parle trĂšs bien du SIDA
]]> 216785188 We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they exploit it?

Imagine you’ve just spent the night with the most famous man on the planet. Except you don’t quite remember it. That is what happens to Rose, a twenty-something woman who seemingly has everything going for her.

Working for one of the most powerful publishers in the country, Rose spends her days doing PR for glossy magazines. There are tedious spreadsheets, fashion divas, and many A-list parties. It’s at one of those parties where she meets Milo Jax, the world-famous, globally adored, British pop sensation. An unlikely flirtation turns into an even more unlikely evening and then Rose wakes up, unable to piece it all together. What happens next changes everything.

Gold Rush is a pre-MeToo story about consent, celebrity culture, and trying to figure out where you fit in a world that consistently devalues and disrespects women’s bodies.]]> 384 Olivia Petter 0008606412 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.32 2024
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]]> 54123398 et reste enfermĂ©e dans sa chambre. Au fil de souvenirs d’enfance Ă©mouvants,
Gifty s’interroge sur sa passion pour la science si opposĂ©e aux croyances de sa mĂšre et de ses ancĂȘtres. Sublime Royaume raconte les difficultĂ©s d’avoir une peau noire en AmĂ©rique, et le choc des gĂ©nĂ©rations au sein d’une famille issue de l’immigration.]]> 374 Yaa Gyasi 2702169031 enzoreads 4 3.84 2020
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average rating: 3.84
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rating: 4
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c’était gĂ©nial et super intĂ©ressant omg, j’ai adorĂ© les facts scientifiques et of course tout l’arc sur la culpabilitĂ© religieuse, been there too girl
]]> 199532064 In this sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy.

Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family’s bond is enough to make it all worth it—until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within.

More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the truth of her plan—to send twenty clones of him to continue human civilization thousands of light-years away—sets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him.

Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all . . . and perhaps humanity as well.]]> 464 Eliot Schrefer 0063343762 enzoreads 4 LA SUITE NOWWWWW 4.36 2024
author: Eliot Schrefer
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average rating: 4.36
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LA SUITE NOWWWWW
]]> 221754310
Now he is. . .

Without a home

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story�

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.]]> 336 Dolly Alderton 0593686950 enzoreads 2 3.69 2023
author: Dolly Alderton
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average rating: 3.69
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ça m’a soĂ»lĂ© j’étais soit pas assez millenial soit pas assez hetero pour ça
]]> 61920967 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades

Meet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the "rocket" of the family - she always has a destination in mind and clear plans for how to get there. Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a life for herself other than the expected path of wife and mother. Cecelia and Emmeline, the twins, are the artist and the caregiver. From childhood, the four sisters complete each other, expecting that their family will always be intact.

When Julia falls in love with William Walters, a history student and college sports star, she's delighted by the way her plans for adulthood are coming together. A husband, a house, a family. But when darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who steps in to help. Suddenly, things shift. Dynamics and relationships, priorities and secrets - everything that was once a given no longer is.

Rich and vivid, heartbreaking and heart-mending, Hello Beautiful captures the joy, tragedy, trust, and betrayal to ask: what does it mean to be a family? And once shattered, can it be pieced back together?

***Praise for Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano***

'Wonderful . . . a beautifully written coming-of-age story' Nina Stibbe

'Powerful' New York Times

'Ann Napolitano's writing is astonishing. I'm in awe' Marian Keyes

'Moving and emotional' Anne Tyler

'That rare book that breaks your heart and stitches it back together' Jodi Picoult

'Stunning, life-affirming' Vogue

'Made me think, nod in recognition, care about its characters, and cry, and you can't ask more of a novel than that' Emma Donoghue]]> 383 Ann Napolitano 024162827X enzoreads 5 4.16 2023
author: Ann Napolitano
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average rating: 4.16
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rating: 5
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Les 100 derniĂšres pages c’est juste de l’abus Ă©motionnel j’ai pas pleurĂ© comme ça depuis si longtemps je suis choquĂ© complĂštement dĂ©truit je suis en train de fumer une cigarette et je fume mĂȘme pas de base je suis juste choquĂ© abasourdi j’suis en larmes c’est quoi son problĂšme Ă  cette autrice foutez la moi en prison toute suite
]]> 209260628 Un roman magnifique qui vient questionner l'héritage des pÚres, l'ambition des fils, ces lignes de tension, de trahison et d'amour qui traversent les générations et relient les hommes. ]]> 272 Nincemon Fallé 2709673916 enzoreads 3 3.88
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]]> 13543121
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.]]> 432 Christopher Buehlman 1937007863 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.20 2012
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]]> 232431 Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.]]> 250 Andrew Holleran 0060937068 enzoreads 3 3.99 1978
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Ptdrrr les fous du bus c’était hilarant
]]> 55315487 Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thingâ€� of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?]]> 320 Jean Hanff Korelitz 125079076X enzoreads 0 to-read 3.75 2021
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]]> 219832865 Un ultimatum lui est alors posé : elle devra produire un certificat de virginité. L'examen gynécologique forcé sera sa « premiÚre fois ».

Comment sortir de l'enfance quand tous les adultes nous trahissent ? Comment aimer quand ceux qui nous aiment nous détruisent ?
Porté par une écriture puissante qui n'oublie ni l'ardeur ni la drÎlerie, le récit de Rim Battal dit les premiÚres fois, le désir, la générosité et la force qui président à la naissance d'une femme et d'une écrivaine.]]> 208 Rim Battal 2227502924 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.29
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]]> 7721457 Dans une maison sur l'Ăźle Maurice, un vieux mĂ©decin Ă  l'agonie est veillĂ© par sa fille et par sa petite-fille. Entre elles et lui se tisse un dialogue d'une violence extrĂȘme, oĂč affleurent progressivement des Ă©lĂ©ments du passĂ©, des souvenirs, des reproches, et surtout la figure mystĂ©rieuse de la mĂšre de Kitty, l'Ă©pouse du « Dokter-Dieu », qui a disparu dans des circonstances terribles. Elles ne le laisseront pas partir en paix.]]> 215 Ananda Devi 2070302180 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.93 2009
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]]> 58270975
Leurs destins se renversent le jour oĂč l’un des clients de Veena, Shivnath, un swami, un homme de Dieu qui dans son temple aime se faire aduler, tombe amoureux de Chinti et la kidnappe. PersuadĂ© d’avoir trouvĂ© la fille de Kali capable de le rendre divin, il l’emmĂšne en pĂšlerinage Ă  BĂ©narĂšs. Comment se douterait-il que sur ses pas, deux reprĂ©sentantes des castes les plus basses, une pute et une hijra, Veena et Sadhana, sont parties pour retrouver Chinti, et le tuer ?

Des bas-fonds de l’Inde oĂč les couleurs des saris trempent dans la misĂšre Ă  sa capitale spirituelle, Ananda Devi nous entraĂźne dans un roman haletant et riche pour fouiller, Ă  sa maniĂšre, les questions brĂ»lantes de notre Ă©poque : la place des femmes et des transsexuels, le rĂšgne des hommes et la sororitĂ© ; les folies de la foi, la pĂ©dophilie ; la religion, la colĂšre et l’amour. Avec son style incisif et poĂ©tique, elle brise le silence des dieux pour faire entendre et rĂ©sonner le cri de guerre des femmes â€� le rire des dĂ©esses.]]> 240 Ananda Devi enzoreads 0 to-read 3.90 2021
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]]> 223478303
When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunniesâ€� side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.]]> Mona Awad enzoreads 0 to-read 4.58 2025
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]]> 60811826 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 208 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492600 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.13 1995
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]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 enzoreads 4 4.14 2023
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J’aurais jamais pensĂ© que ça pouvait ĂȘtre mon style et franchement j’ai Ă©tĂ© HAPPÉ par le rĂ©cit
]]> 54493401
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.49 2021
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]]> 45304101 A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.

Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

The Great Believers has become a critically acclaimed, indelible piece of literature; it was selected as one of New York Times Best 10 Books of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Buzzfeed Book of the Year, a Skimm Reads pick, and a pick for the New York Public Library's Best Books of the year.]]> 421 Rebecca Makkai 073522353X enzoreads 5 4.26 2018
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C’est peut ĂȘtre devenu un de mes livres favori je suis en train de chialer ma race
]]> 205825264 The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is

Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Killsâ€� wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.

The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she’d lost desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country—and drives her to a desperation all her own.

Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back—where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.]]> M.L. Rio enzoreads 0 to-read 4.43 2025
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]]> 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 enzoreads 5 4.05 2014
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Un chef d’Ɠuvre contemplatif grĂące auquel j’aurai des crises d’angoisse systĂ©matiques aprĂšs chaque symptĂŽme grippal
]]> 19161852
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 468 N.K. Jemisin enzoreads 0 to-read 4.29 2015
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]]> 213753
Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.]]> 337 Susan Beth Pfeffer enzoreads 0 to-read 3.89 2006
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]]> 198563681
Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when an intimate connection blossoms between Obiefuna and a boy from a nearby village, happiness is fleeting once his father catches them together and banishes him to boarding school.

Obiefuna finds and hides who he truly is as he navigates his new school’s strict hierarchy and unpredictable violence. Back home, his mother Uzoamaka must contend with the absence of her beloved son, her husband’s cryptic reasons for sending him away, and the hard truths that they’ve all been hiding from. As Nigeria teeters on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships, Obiefuna’s life, or the life he wants to live, becomes even further out of a reach and more dangerous than ever before.

Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka, Blessings is an elegant and exquisitely moving story that asks how to live freely in a country that forbids one’s truest self, and the love that can flourish in spite of it all.]]> 288 Chukwuebuka Ibeh 0385550642 enzoreads 4 dĂ©primant mais si beau 4.16 2024
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déprimant mais si beau
]]> 207611566 There’s power in a bookâ€�

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid
and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror masterâ€� (NPR).]]> 482 Grady Hendrix 0593548981 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.02 2025
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]]> 211003759 In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.

All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.

Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most â€� love and work, community and knowledge â€� will survive.]]> 304 Eiren Caffall 1250353521 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.59 2025
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]]> 219848315 Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing â€� formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness â€� are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X enzoreads 0 to-read 4.38 2025
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]]> 214152211 One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo.

Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their marriage rise and fall.

When a shocking blow scatters their fragile trio, Georgette tries to distance herself from reminders of her parents. Years later, Lillian’s son comes searching for his birth family, so Georgette must return to her roots, unearth her family’s history, and decide whether she can open up to love for them—or herself—while there’s still time.

Told from three intimate points of view, The Bright Years is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.]]> 288 Sarah Damoff 1668061449 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.50 2025
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]]> 213618132 The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.

The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers, but when Ebby's high profile romance falls apart without any explanation, that's exactly what they get.

So Ebby flees to France, only for her past to follow her there. And as she tries to process what's happened, she begins to think about the other loss her family suffered on that day eighteen years ago—the stoneware jar that had been in their family for generations, brought North by an enslaved ancestor. But little does she know that the handcrafted piece of pottery held more than just her family's history—it might also hold the key to unlocking her own future.

In this sweeping, evocative novel, Charmaine Wilkerson brings to life a multi-generational epic that examines how the past informs our present.]]> 368 Charmaine Wilkerson 0593358368 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.07 2025
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]]> 211025407 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593712993.

An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.

A single choice can define an entire life.

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.

Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen’s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi’s from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

At once epic and intimate, Homeseeking is a story of family, sacrifice, and loyalty, and of the power of love to endure beyond distance, beyond time.]]> 512 Karissa Chen enzoreads 0 to-read 4.26 2025
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]]> 30106 352 Alan Hollinghurst 0679722564 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.77 1988
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]]> 209891406 From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violence.

Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.

Dave Win, the son of a British dressmaker and a Burmese man he’s never met, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities lie before Dave, even as he is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates, above all that of Giles Hadlow, whose worldly parents sponsored the scholarship and who find in Dave someone they can more easily nurture than their brutish son.

Our Evenings follows Dave from the 1960s on—through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.

Moving in and out of Dave’s orbit are the Hadlows. Estranged from his parents, who remain close to Dave, Giles directs his privilege into a career as a powerful right-wing politician, whose reactionary vision for England pokes perilous holes in Dave’s stability. And as the novel accelerates towards the present day, the two men’s lives and values will finally collide in a cruel shock of violence.

This is “one of our most gifted writersâ€� (The Boston Globe) sweeping readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.]]> 496 Alan Hollinghurst 0593243064 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.94 2024
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]]> 200555888
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami.

In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind.

He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he’s become since he left, and with who his mother finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love.

Hombrecitoâ€� “little man”—is a moving portrait of a young person between cultures, between different ideas of himself. From an extraordinary new talent, this is a story told with startling beauty and intensity, a story for anyone searching for home, searching for a way to love.]]> 336 Santiago Jose Sanchez 0593542185 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.84 2024
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]]> 51791252
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.]]> 343 Brit Bennett 0525536299 enzoreads 5 J’ai chialĂ© ma race 5/5 4.12 2020
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J’ai chialĂ© ma race 5/5
]]> 52045757 Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba â€� the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people â€� and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detailâ€� of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.]]> 144 Adania Shibli 191309717X enzoreads 0 to-read 4.27 2017
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]]> 52122096
Fanfiction for Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.
Words: 370,256]]> 925 SenLinYu enzoreads 0 4.64 2019
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je suis officiellement sinistré
]]> 160044062 0 Wajdi Mouawad enzoreads 0 to-read 4.41 2003
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]]> 49960031
Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow.

Into the gross --
Girls gone mild --
Hung up! --
Late-1900s time capsule --
Love and marriage --
Are you familiar with my work? --
Hysterical! --
Lesbian bed death --
Body negativity --
Country crock --
A guide to simple home repairs --
We almost got a fucking dog --
Detachment parenting --
Season 1, episode 1 --
Hollywood summer --
$$$ --
Hello, 911? --
An extremely specific guide to publishing a book]]> 319 Samantha Irby 0525563482 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.81 2020
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]]> 220817728 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.]]> 352 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158717 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.44 2025
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]]> 219521090 A publishing event ten years in the making�a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists�the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until â€� betrayed and brokenhearted â€� she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America â€� but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.]]> 416 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 059380273X enzoreads 0 to-read 3.99 2025
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]]> 29564884
Ensorcelante Ă©vocation de l’adolescence, La Maison dans laquelle est un chant d’amour Ă  cet Ăąge ingrat et bienheureux, Ă  ses exaltations et ses tragĂ©dies, au sentiment de frustration et de toute-puissance qui le traverse. Mariam Petrosyan a rĂ©ussi Ă  crĂ©er un univers bariolĂ©, vivant et rĂ©aliste, pĂ©tri de cette nostalgie et de cet Ă©merveillement que nous avons tous au fond de nous et qui fait que, parfois, nous refusons de grandir et d’affronter la brutalitĂ© du monde qu’on appelle la rĂ©alitĂ©.]]> 1118 Mariam Petrosyan enzoreads 0 to-read 4.34 2009
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]]> 6834410
Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff’s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family’s quirky newspaper.

As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paper’s rich history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founder’s intentions.

Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents.]]> 272 Tom Rachman 0385343663 enzoreads 4 3.55 2010
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C’était gĂ©nial les personnages vont me manquer :( trop drĂŽles en plus
]]> 199798179 A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expatsâ€� from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridgeâ€�: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as â€�1847â€� or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,â€� “Spotify,â€� and “the collapse of the British Empire.â€� But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.]]> 339 Kaliane Bradley 1668045141 enzoreads 2 Encore plus dommage pcq les personnages sont trop attachants mais jsp tu peux nous donner plus de dĂ©tails sur leur adaptation? Comment la go de 1637 elle est sur Tinder 2 mois aprĂšs son arrivĂ©e dans le futur ? T’avais la flemme? Nan mais fallait regarder les visiteurs jsp ohlalalalalaaaaaaa c’est bon j’ai les nerfs lĂ  mon grain de nerf lĂ  il monte comme une fusĂ©e !!!!!! SoulĂ©/5]]> 3.54 2024
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franchement dĂ©jĂ  j’ai pas compris que c’était une romance mais encore ça allait puis y’a eu la scĂšne de smut et lĂ  ça a tout gĂąchĂ© dommage pcq le concept Ă©tait trop cool mais elle allait JAMAIS au bout des choses genre ça aurait pu ĂȘtre tellement mieux c’était pas degueulasse hein mais c’était loin d’ĂȘtre dĂ©licieux.
Encore plus dommage pcq les personnages sont trop attachants mais jsp tu peux nous donner plus de dĂ©tails sur leur adaptation? Comment la go de 1637 elle est sur Tinder 2 mois aprĂšs son arrivĂ©e dans le futur ? T’avais la flemme? Nan mais fallait regarder les visiteurs jsp ohlalalalalaaaaaaa c’est bon j’ai les nerfs lĂ  mon grain de nerf lĂ  il monte comme une fusĂ©e !!!!!! SoulĂ©/5
]]> 199391376 DorothĂ©e Myriam Kellou tente d’y apporter sa part de lumiĂšre. De Nancy oĂč elle a grandi, en passant par l'Égypte, la Palestine et les Etats-Unis, la jeune femme vogue pour mieux s’ancrer. Dans ce livre trĂšs personnel, DorothĂ©e remonte le temps, celui oĂč ses parents - Catherine, jeune française en voyage solidaire en AlgĂ©rie, et Malek, jeune rĂ©alisateur algĂ©rien aux sympathies communistes -, se sont connus et aimĂ©s. L'autrice Ă©voque aussi son enfance, sa double culture, la force et les tiraillements qu'elle engendre. Le  poids du silence en hĂ©ritage : la guerre, les dĂ©placements de population, les camps. Toutes ces  vĂ©ritĂ©s qu’on tait, la violence Ă©prouvĂ©e quand enfin elles Ă©clatent. Avec son pĂšre, DorothĂ©e retournera sur les lieux de cette histoire traumatique  : une maison, un arbre, des tĂ©moins d’alors la feront resurgir. PĂšre et fille en feront un film, et ainsi, rĂ©pareront l’oubli. 
EnquĂȘte, rĂ©cit intime, rĂ©flexion sur l'histoire, la mĂ©moire, l'identitĂ© et la transmission, voyage initiatique, hommage au pĂšre et Ă  son pays : ce premier texte de DorothĂ©e Myriam Kellou est inclassable et remarquable pour cette raison mĂȘme. Il tĂątonne, interroge, raconte une AlgĂ©rie tantĂŽt douloureuse, tantĂŽt rĂȘvĂ©e, ouvrant la voie de l’apaisement et de la rĂ©conciliation.]]> 205 DorothĂ©e-Myriam Kellou 2246828759 enzoreads 0 4.33
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]]> 210223811 Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.]]> 400 R.F. Kuang enzoreads 0 to-read 4.11 2025
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]]> 56507556 361 Yassine TEMLALI 2348065800 enzoreads 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 30631883
Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde Ă  jamais perdu. Les battements de cƓur et les souffles coupĂ©s, les pensĂ©es profondes et les rires dĂ©ployĂ©s, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites, les jours d'orages, les jacarandas en fleurs... L'enfance, son infinie douceur, ses douleurs qui ne nous quittent jamais.]]> 224 GaĂ«l Faye 2246857333 enzoreads 5
C’était parfait GaĂ«l Faye tu es un gĂ©nie ]]> 4.30 2016
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bon recommandez moi un livre qui va pas me donner envie de me flinguer svp

C’était parfait GaĂ«l Faye tu es un gĂ©nie
]]> 60799558 422 A. Helwa 1957415010 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.52
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]]> 220260310 131 Salomé Saqué 2228937614 enzoreads 5 4.55
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Hyper important et trĂšs instructif tant sur l’histoire de l’extrĂȘme droite que sur sur la façon de la combattre au quotidien !
]]> 220294792
En cette « journĂ©e particuliĂšre », Vincent et sa femme, Juliette, doivent surmonter leur douleur pour rejoindre des centaines d’inconnus venus honorer la mĂ©moire d’Hugo, leur fils de quatorze ans. Tandis que le cortĂšge endeuillĂ© progresse silencieusement Ă  travers les rues de Saint-Nazaire, Vincent dialogue avec lui-mĂȘme, remonte le cours du temps.

Pourquoi Hugo a-t-il perdu pied face aux persĂ©cutions de deux gamins stupides et cruels ? En quoi ont-ils failli, lui et Juliette ? Comment pardonner Ă  ceux qui ont pris leur fils pour cible et dĂ©chaĂźnĂ© sur lui leur haine gratuite et Ă  tous les autres, lĂąches ou complices, qui ont laissĂ© faire ? Suivant un implacable mouvement de balancier, les souvenirs, des plus joyeux aux plus Ă©prouvants, alternent avec le prĂ©sent de cette « marche blanche » oĂč chacun tente, comme il peut, de tenir debout. Surtout pour Enzo, le fils cadet.

Dans ce puissant rĂ©quisitoire contre la violence ordinaire, la bĂȘtise et l’intolĂ©rance, Philippe Besson analyse les mĂ©canismes insidieux du harcĂšlement, tout en interrogeant les failles de l’institution scolaire et l’impuissance des adultes face Ă  l’un des pires flĂ©aux de notre Ă©poque.]]> 208 Philippe Besson 226005630X enzoreads 5
Du Philippe Besson comme on l’aime : simple, court, efficace, impactant.

Ce rĂ©cit, oĂč un pĂšre raconte le suicide de son fils harcelĂ© Ă  l’école, est d’une puissance incroyable et devrait ĂȘtre une lecture obligatoire pour se rendre compte du flĂ©au qu’est l’harcĂšlement et ses consĂ©quences parfois funestes.

Je ne ressors pas seulement Ă©mu de ma lecture mais aussi enragĂ©. EnragĂ© par l’inaction des Ă©quipes scolaires, par l’inaction des autoritĂ©s et par l’inaction de certains parents qui permettent tout et n’importe quoi Ă  leurs sales gosses.

Un livre d’utilitĂ© publique et j’espĂšre qu’il rencontrera le succĂšs qu’il mĂ©rite afin d’éveiller les consciences.

En librairie le 2 janvier. ]]> 4.42
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J’ai encore les larmes aux yeux au moment oĂč j’écris cette review

Du Philippe Besson comme on l’aime : simple, court, efficace, impactant.

Ce rĂ©cit, oĂč un pĂšre raconte le suicide de son fils harcelĂ© Ă  l’école, est d’une puissance incroyable et devrait ĂȘtre une lecture obligatoire pour se rendre compte du flĂ©au qu’est l’harcĂšlement et ses consĂ©quences parfois funestes.

Je ne ressors pas seulement Ă©mu de ma lecture mais aussi enragĂ©. EnragĂ© par l’inaction des Ă©quipes scolaires, par l’inaction des autoritĂ©s et par l’inaction de certains parents qui permettent tout et n’importe quoi Ă  leurs sales gosses.

Un livre d’utilitĂ© publique et j’espĂšre qu’il rencontrera le succĂšs qu’il mĂ©rite afin d’éveiller les consciences.

En librairie le 2 janvier.
]]> 18209615 222 Boubacar Boris Diop 9782843085 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.39 2004
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Mais ce double devenu si proche lui est arrachĂ© aussi brusquement qu’il Ă©tait apparu. Milan n’était que seul, le voici Ă©prouvĂ© par le chagrin, rĂ©voltĂ© par le silence de ses parents. Il ne le sait pas encore, mais pas Ă  pas, voyage aprĂšs voyage, devenu jeune homme puis adulte, il va remonter Ă  la source du mystĂšre familial et aux origines du drame du Rwanda, en pleine reconstruction aprĂšs le gĂ©nocide des Tutsis.

LĂ -bas, il trouve une famille : sa taiseuse grand-mĂšre ; EusĂ©bie, gĂ©nĂ©reuse et dĂ©terminĂ©e ; Claude, toujours rĂȘveur, installĂ© dans un joyeux caravansĂ©rail avec son copain Sartre ; la petite Stella souvent rĂ©fugiĂ©e en haut du jacaranda, son arbre fĂ©tiche ; et tant d’autres qui essaient d’avancer dans un pays blessĂ© mais d’une phĂ©nomĂ©nale vitalitĂ©. Les plaies Ă  vif y sont dissimulĂ©es sous un tourbillon de bruit, de musique et d’alcool.

Ni tout Ă  fait de lĂ  ni tout Ă  fait d’ailleurs, Milan devient le passeur de secrets qu’il faut rĂ©ussir Ă  exhumer. Les rĂ©vĂ©lations seront douloureuses pour chacun et Stella devra renoncer au jacaranda tant aimĂ©, mais au bout du chemin, peut-ĂȘtre la rĂ©conciliation est-elle possible.

Comme Milan Ă©coute et parvient Ă  comprendre le pays de ses origines, GaĂ«l Faye reconstitue avec sa douceur unique les parcours contrastĂ©s de ses personnages. Sur quatre gĂ©nĂ©rations, il nous raconte l’histoire terrible d’un pays qui tente malgrĂ© tout l’expĂ©rience du dialogue et du pardon. Comme un arbre se dresse entre tĂ©nĂšbres et lumiĂšre, Jacaranda cĂ©lĂšbre l’humanitĂ©, paradoxale, aimante, vivante.

]]> 282 Gaël Faye 2246831458 enzoreads 5 4.49 2024
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Je suis en LARMES je suis dĂ©truit la HONTE de pas lui avoir donnĂ© le Goncourt je fais que pleurer oh purĂ©e c’est quoi ce bordeeeeeel @gaelfaye je t’envoie ma facture de psy. Merci d’avoir racontĂ© ces histoires sur le gĂ©nocide des Tutsis au Rwanda et de l’avoir fait avec une telle beautĂ©. Il a si bien Ă©crit sur le traumatisme gĂ©nĂ©rationnel bref j’vais jamais m’en remettre
]]> 1810674 La Mort du roi Tsongor plante son fascinant dĂ©cor au cƓur d'une Afrique ancestrale. L'histoire ? Le vieux roi Tsongor, qui a depuis longtemps fait taire ses instincts guerriers, marie sa fille Samilia au fortunĂ© prince Kouame. Mais voilĂ  qu'un deuxiĂšme prĂ©tendant s'interpose, auquel Samilia avait jadis promis sa main. Tsongor refuse de choisir entre les deux hommes. Il se donne la mort avec l'aide de son serviteur. Une guerre sanguinaire Ă©clate alors entre les deux parties.
Le jeune dramaturge Laurent GaudĂ© quitte la scĂšne le temps d'un trĂšs beau roman, oĂč l'imaginaire romanesque embrasse les grands thĂšmes de la tragĂ©die classique tels que l'hĂ©roĂŻsme, la vengeance, la honte et le pardon. Un livre flamboyant.]]> 204 Laurent GaudĂ© 2742752986 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.99 2002
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]]> 42140575 Quand Salina meurt, il revient Ă  son fils, qui a grandi seul avec elle dans le dĂ©sert, de raconter son histoire, celle d’une femme de larmes, de vengeance et de flamme. Laurent GaudĂ© rĂ©invente les mythes pour Ă©crire le geste d’une hĂ©roĂŻne lumineuse et sauvage.

]]> 104 Laurent Gaudé enzoreads 0 to-read 4.18 2003
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]]> 202468422 From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time.

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.

In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.

In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.

A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.â€�]]> 464 Elif Shafak 0593801717 enzoreads 5 Luna tu vas me le payer 4.39 2024
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Luna tu vas me le payer
]]> 29751398 The Power the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; and a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: They can cause agonizing pain and even death. With this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.]]> 341 Naomi Alderman 0670919985 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.75 2016
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Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.21 1949
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Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> 311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X enzoreads 0 to-read 4.15 1985
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]]> 210331628 A suspenseful, satirical dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book.

A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book—a total flop—all the more devastating. Now, David is single, lonely, and desperately trying to come up with the next great idea for his third manuscript, one that will redeem him in the eyes of readers, reviewers
and maybe even his ex-boyfriend.

The issue is, good ideas are hard to come by, and the mounting pressure of a near-empty bank account isn’t helping. But when David connects with a sexy stranger on a dating app, he figures a wild night out in New York City may be just what he needs to find inspiration. Lucky for him, his date turns out to be handsome, confident, and wealthy, not to mention the perfect distraction from yet another evening staring at a blank screen.

After one of the best nights of his life, David wakes up hungover but giddy—only to find prince charming dead next to him in bed. Horrified, completely confused, and suddenly faced with the implausible-but-somehow-plausible idea that he may have actually killed his date, David calls the only person he can trust in a moment of crisis: his literary agent, Stacey.

Together, David and Stacey must untangle the events of the previous night, cover their tracks, and spin the entire misadventure into David’s career-defining novel—if only they can figure out what to do with the body first.]]> 329 Daniel Aleman 1538766345 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.61 2024
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Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.18 2019
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In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here]]> 544 Anthony Doerr 1476746583 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.31 2014
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]]> 58733693 Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.]]> 368 Shelby Van Pelt 0063204150 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.35 2022
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]]> 62038615
En lisant MisĂšre de la Kabylie, reportage publiĂ© par Camus en 1939, Xavier Le Clerc dĂ©couvre dans quelles conditions de dĂ©nuement son pĂšre a grandi. L’auteur retrace le parcours de cet homme courageux, si longtemps absent et mutique, arrivĂ© d’AlgĂ©rie en 1962, embauchĂ© comme manƓuvre Ă  la SociĂ©tĂ© mĂ©tallurgique de Normandie. Ce tĂ©moignage captivant est un cri de rĂ©volte contre l’injustice et la misĂšre organisĂ©e, mais il laisse aussi entendre une voix apaisĂ©e qui invite Ă  rĂ©flĂ©chir sur les notions d’identitĂ© et d’intĂ©gration.]]> 127 Xavier Le Clerc 2072987881 enzoreads 4 3.86 2022
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merci beaucoup c’était gĂ©nial
]]> 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 enzoreads 3 °ż°ìâ€� 4.17 2024
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]]> 208460840
Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become � or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?

In Fire, John Boyne takes the reader on a chilling, uncomfortable but utterly compelling psychological journey to the epicentre of the human condition, asking the age-old question: nurture � or nature?]]> 176 John Boyne 0857529870 enzoreads 5 4.22 2024
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WTF je l’ai fini d’une seule traite c’est complĂštement whatttt j’ai besoin d’un book club pour en parler je suis complĂštement disturbed omg wtf wt whattt quoii mais QUOIIIIII WHATTTT du gĂ©nie omg wMais EWWW WHATTT
]]> 181109993 For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.

London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they’ve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change their lives foreverâ€�

Maggie, a once-hopeful artist turned waitress, is pregnant and preparing to move back to her hometown with her boyfriend and father-to-be Ed, leaving the city she loves and the life she imagined for herself.

Ed, coasting through life as a barely competent bike courier, is ready for a new start with Maggie and their baby, if only to finally leave behind his secret past of hooking up with strange men in train station bathrooms—and his secret past with Maggie’s best friend, Phil.

Phil, who sleepwalks through his office job and lives for the weekends, is on the brink of achieving his first real relationship with his roommate Keith. The two live in an illegal warehouse commune with other quirky creatives and idealists—the site of the party to end all parties.

As the temperature continues to climb, Maggie, Ed, and Phil will have to confront their shared pasts, current desires, and limits of their future lives together before the weekend is over.

Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s addictive, page-turning debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a critical look at the political, emotional, and financial hurdles facing young adults trying to build lives there and often living for their evenings and weekends.]]> 352 Oisín McKenna 0063319977 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.78 2024
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]]> 43522576 Christopher is the new kid in town.
Christopher has an imaginary friend.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out.

At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.

Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on.]]> 705 Stephen Chbosky 1538731339 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.52 2019
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]]> 9912 From the bestselling author of American Psycho comes this satirical black comedy about the death of romance.

Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future—or even the present. Three of them—Sean, Paul, and Lauren—become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, "Dressed to Get Screwed" parties, and "End of the World" parties.

As Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.]]> 283 Bret Easton Ellis 067978148X enzoreads 0 to-read 3.74 1987
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]]> 9915
Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs, and into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.]]> 208 Bret Easton Ellis enzoreads 0 to-read 3.62 1985
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]]> 60880820 A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city.

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.

17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling pre-occupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them--and Bret in particular--with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends--or his own mind--to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.

Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero LA, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17-sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.
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ça m’a donnĂ© envie d’habiter Ă  LA et de commencer la ❄
]]> 127488823
The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream.

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.

There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode in tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, an exile, unable to leave England, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would jeopardize their safety.

When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him, but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.

A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author at the peak of his powers.]]> 399 Hisham Matar 081299485X enzoreads 0 to-read 4.31 2024
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]]> 199798201
A house is a precious thing...

It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season.

Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation—leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem.

Mysterious, sophisticated, sensual, and infused with intrigue, atmosphere, and sex, The Safekeep is a brilliantly plotted and provocative debut novel you won’t soon forget.]]> 272 Yael van der Wouden 1668034344 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.05 2024
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]]> 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett enzoreads 0 to-read 4.47 2024
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]]> 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.12 1993
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]]> 203956643 A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authorsâ€� (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”]]> 257 Mariana Enríquez 0593733258 enzoreads 4 3.81 2024
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j’ai mis genre 10 ans pour le finir mais j’ai trop aimĂ© juste arrĂȘte les nouvelles ma belle et sort nous un roman
]]> 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]> 370 Stephen King 0450417395 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.22 1987
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]]> 33124137 This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.]]> 580 Stephen King enzoreads 0 to-read 4.21 1983
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]]> 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]> 483 Stephen King 0450031063 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.06 1975
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]]> 835810 lĂ©gĂšretĂ© de l'ĂȘtre qui caractĂ©rise Tomas et Sabina, la maĂźtresse amie qui seule peut comprendre le mĂ©decin sĂ©ducteur explorant les femmes comme s'il dissĂ©quait des objets d'Ă©tude au scalpel ? Ne sachant quelle orientation est la plus supportable, le roman offre tour Ă  tour le regard des diffĂ©rents personnages. MĂȘme le chien KarĂ©nine a droit au chapitre. Mais ce ballet incertain teintĂ© d'irrĂ©alitĂ© apparaĂźt vite comme une interrogation dialectique qui oscille entre rĂ©flexion et dĂ©lire poĂ©tique pour aboutir Ă  la conclusion que la pesanteur et la lĂ©gĂšretĂ©, pareillement insoutenables, ne procĂšdent jamais d'une dĂ©cision vĂ©ritable. --Sana Tang-LĂ©opold Wauters]]> 475 Milan Kundera enzoreads 0 to-read 4.16 1984
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]]> 2657
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 enzoreads 5 4.25 1960
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Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders.

Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.]]> 441 Patrick Radden Keefe 0385521316 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.47 2018
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]]> 208558784 Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail

‘It's clear that Spencer is a poet. The use of rhyme, rhythm and onomatopoeia permeates this story and it really affected the way I experienced the book ... This is a unique debut which made me think of authors such as Max Porter and Rainer Maria Rilke. I’m excited to see what’s next for Spencer, for this certainly is a triumph.â€�
Helen Daniels, The Debut Digest

‘This is a thought-provoking and sensitive book about moving forwards â€� tackles important themes around living well.'
Francesca Brown, Stylist

‘An intriguing and enjoyable read, great for all those with a feline friend.â€�
Dubray Books, Dubray Recommends

‘Clever and unputdowable, it left me thinking about it long after I’d finished. Cat Lover is hugely entertaining and provocative; it’s a thing of beauty.â€�
Brian Conaghan, author of Treacle Town

‘Acutely observed and brimming with wit and pathos, Dan Spencer’s prose is startling, vivid, and alive.â€�
Iain Maloney, author of In the Shadow of Piper Alpha



You invited him in. Now the claws come out.

When solitary and struggling A&E doctor Ivy invites the Geologist home one night, her cat Berry’s hackles are raised. As the Geologist becomes more and more a part of Berry’s life, Berry determines to get rid of him. Meanwhile, as Ivy wrestles with her feelings for boyfriends old and new, she’s entirely unaware of her cat’s designs . . .

Shifting between the perspectives of Ivy and Berry, we watch them tussle over who they are, how they got there and what they desire.]]> 218 Dan Spencer 1805461702 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.15 2024
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]]> 35637992 Dans la ville ensanglantée, un jeune garçon erre à la recherche de ses camarades. Dans une maison d'édition, une jeune femme travaille sur un texte censuré. Dans le présent, des rescapés se souviennent. Et des ùmes tourmentées cherchent à trouver la paix.
Sur une trame historique encore douloureuse, dans le style pur empreint de bouddhisme qui lui est propre, la romanciĂšre Han Kang se positionne face Ă  la rĂ©surgence d'une certaine idĂ©ologie autoritaire et rend hommage aux martyrs de la dĂ©mocratie corĂ©enne.]]> 233 Han Kang enzoreads 5 chef d’Ɠuvre 4.02 2014
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chef d’Ɠuvre
]]> 217388236 A messianic tale about a group of professional mourners—a darkly funny novel of grief, mourning, and mystery from the author of The Delivery.

Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He's a card-carrying member of Local 312, an eccentric union of mourners, hired for funerals and wakes, services and burials. But all that feeling can wear a man down, and the tears don’t come like they used to. Especially as the normals, the privileged non-weepers, appear to feel less and less every day, even as the world gets worse and worse. Lately it’s been drier and hotter than hell itself.

And then one morning a new kid shows up. No belongings, no parents, no name. He’s young, scrawny, non-union. Ed can’t help but feel a fondness for him. The kid never sheds a tear, but he is charged with a strange, divine power to make others feel. He leaves a trail of something—call them miracles, call them disasters—in his wake. And then he disappears.

A surrealist story of mass grief, of feeling and failing, of families and cowboys and deserts and strung-out souls, Peter Mendelsund's Weepers is a messianic mystery for this age and the next.]]> 320 Peter Mendelsund 0374619077 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.33
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]]> 220059293 Ce rĂ©cit moderne et puissant est la chronique sensible d'un lieu et de ceux qui s'y rendent : hommes pressĂ©s de l'heure du dĂ©jeuner, garçons en bande de fin d'aprĂšs-midi, solitaires en quĂȘte de contacts. L'auteur relate la sexualitĂ© sans tabou, mais interroge aussi la communautĂ© gay, la solidaritĂ©, et surtout le plaisir d'ĂȘtre ensemble, le temps d'une cĂ©lĂ©bration des peaux et des corps.]]> 109 Lucien Fradin 238639008X enzoreads 0 3.27
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Alors quand la jeune Margaret Larkin se volatilise, c’est comme si la riviĂšre se mettait Ă  couler Ă  l’envers, et que l’ñme des morts souhaitait dĂ©vorer l’esprit des vivants. Et tandis que remonte Ă  la surface ce qui n’aurait jamais dĂ» se noyer, une Ă©trange lune se lĂšve au-dessus de la ville, immense et froide, dont la lumiĂšre blafarde envahit tout et aveugle victime comme meurtrier, les dĂ©chus de Babylon.]]> 460 Michael McDowell 2381961690 enzoreads 3 4.04 1980
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mhmmm je suis pas sûr� la premiÚre partie était trop cool puis le rythme est devenu vraiment chelou
]]> 201242757 From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,â€� writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,â€� and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastidsâ€� explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,â€� a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,â€� a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,â€� a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Manâ€� asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.]]> 512 Stephen King 1668037718 enzoreads 0 to-read 4.17 2024
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]]> 203956639 A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart.

Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.

After passing the test, Lennon begins to learn how to master her devastating and unsettling power. But despite persuasion’s heavy toll on her body and mind, she is wholly captivated by her studies, by Drayton’s lush, moss-draped campus, and by her brilliant classmates. But even more captivating is her charismatic adviser, Dante, who both intimidates and enthralls her.

As Lennon continues in her studies her control grows, and she starts to uncover more about the secret world she has entered into, including the disquieting history of Drayton College, and the way her mentor’s tragic and violent past intertwines with it. She is increasingly disturbed by what she learns. For it seems that the ultimate test is to embrace absolute power without succumbing to corruption . . . and it's a test she's terrified she is going to fail.]]> 464 Alexis Henderson 0593638301 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.45 2024
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]]> 154462576 New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?

November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two men form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.

As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.]]> 325 Katherine Arden 0593128257 enzoreads 0 to-read 3.97 2024
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