Book Recommendations
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Life Lessons
This week features three novelists with well-earned reputations for offering tips on living. We have the return, after a decade, of an author...
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Care and Feeding
Three of this week’s books concern London: an investigation into a mysterious death; a novel exploring friendship and the state of publishing...
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Almost Famous
Three novels this week touch on fame: we have a slim yet potent book concerning a famous, aging writer; a group of midlife female boy-band fans...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The five novels this week introduce characters—parents, siblings, friends, and enemies—who span a wide range of circumstances, dispositions...
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Larger Than Life
Two of The Center’s upcoming programs launch books from this week’s selection: a much-anticipated conversation with a former teacher about...
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Fierce Attachments
The week’s selection consists of five novels whose characters create powerful bonds that define their lives. In one, which we’ll launch...
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Through It All
The five books this week remind us how, despite life’s obstacles, we carry on. Whether through a memoir composed of staccato short pieces revealing...
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Going to Great Lengths
One does not have to write a long book to be worthy of acclaim. But readers increasingly seek out books of a certain length—whether an epic...
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Place Settings
Sometimes I read based on the setting—location and circumstance can be very persuasive. In the four novels below you’ll find yourself on a...
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(Self) Discovery
This week’s selection provides much for readers to discover. There are two novels marked by comic genius–one set in the Middle East and one...
