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    I am currently reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and absolutely loving it. Though I am trying to ration myself a bit so I don’t finish too fast. I am away this weekend and will potentially have some chunks of reading time so will either finish it and need another or alternate.

    I have a list of physical books I’ve recently got but can’t decide what to take:
    – We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
    – Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    – O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
    – The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
    – Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Catherine
    – Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker
    – Collection of short stories Nikolai Gogol
    – The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
    – Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

    So would love to get ideas (with why) of what to take. Normally I just buy and read straight away but been to some great second hand shops recently and Waterstones had double points so got a few too many!
    Feel free to suggest something else entirely as can be Audible or Kindle too.

    Recent books I’ve enjoyed
    – I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
    – Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
    – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    – The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

    All time faves:
    – The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
    – Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
    – The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
    – Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
    – Iain Banks (with and without the M), Ursula Le Guin, Austen, Nabokov

    If you’ve got this far, thank you!

    by WhyWontYouHelpMe

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