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True Grit
A fourteen-year-old hires a drunk marshal to avenge her father, and narrates it fifty years on.
2 recommenders
War and Peace
Five families through Napoleon's invasion, plus several hundred pages arguing with historians.
2 recommenders
When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon at the start of his career is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and turns his training on his own dying
2 recommenders
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?
Fred Schwed's witty 1940 takedown of Wall Street, whose title asks why the brokers have yachts but their customers do not.
2 recommenders
Where the Crawdads Sing
A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marshes becomes a murder suspect in this coming-of-age mystery.
2 recommenders
Widow Basquiat
1980s New York given to the woman rather than the painter, in fragments rather than chronology.
2 recommenders
Wild
Cheryl Strayed’s account of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail alone after loss, and what the walk gave back to her.
2 recommenders
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