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1 Older Than You Are Water, Water Everywhere What’s Yours is Mine Family Drama It Takes Two
2 New Release Plays With Words Independent Author Bookception Disability Representation
3 Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie Stranger in a Strange Land One Less There is Another… LGBTQIA+ Lead
4 Now a Major Motion Picture It’s About Time Award Winner Mashup Local to You
5 Debut Work It’s a Holiday Institutional Minority Author Among the Stars
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    • JaymesRS@literature.cafeOPMEnglish
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      7 months ago
      • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
      • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
      • Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
      • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
      • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
      • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
      • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I asked this question a few months back and had a ton of replies. I’ll leave a link to the thread and highlight my two favourite books so far.

      Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky “Evolutionary storytelling”. It tells the story of an entire civilization as it grows and evolves from nothing, whilst simultaneously telling a story that takes place over a much more conventional timescale. Very good book IMO, with two slightly-less-strong sequals

      Idaho Winter - Tony Burgess What a bizarre book this was. I don’t know if it’s a good book, but it was weird and kept me entertained so that’s good enough for me.

      Spoiler for what made it weird

      The author gets dragged into the story at one point and becomes a character in the book by accident

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