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Ellie Bozmarova's avatar

The Safekeep

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow

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Saving Sylvia Plath's avatar

Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Robert Barnes's avatar

Pictures of You by Jane Elmor, and Precipice by Robert Harris.

It's really hard to resist saying which is which :-)

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Posy Churchgate's avatar

I’m not your‘literary fiction’ gang so maybe you will toss my answer - Girl, Woman, Other (B Evaristo) The Midnight Library (M Haigh)

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Tilly Vercoutre's avatar

haha naaaaa... all writers welcome here. Just the literary fiction writers who tend to avoid contemporary fiction the hardest ;) thx for commenting.

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Carol Tulpar's avatar

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Kate Morris's avatar

Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason

Tom Lake Anne Patchett

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Davis Treat's avatar

The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alex E. Harrow

Neuromancer — William Gibson (bit of a stretch, I know. )

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Sam Ellison's avatar

Lessons Ian Mckewan

The Island of missing trees. Elif Shafak

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Rebecca's avatar

My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrante (this one's a bit old, sorry!)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Sam Ellison's avatar

Young Mungo and lessons in chemistry

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Colin Macleod's avatar

YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart

THE QUIET DEATH OF THOMAS QUAID by Craig Russell

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Victor Shepelev aka zverok's avatar

The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

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David Sparling's avatar

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Milkman by Anna Burns

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Sandy To's avatar

Disorientation - Elaine Hsieh Chou

Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang

(They're on the same topic, but I liked one better than the other. One had more heart and one was a half-hearted attempt.)

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Ronan O'Driscoll's avatar

Orbital - Samantha Harvey; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

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Valerie O’Riordan's avatar

The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich; Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.

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