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33 reviews

“Find Me ” Andre Aciman’s sequel to “Call Me by Your Name ” was good. It’s been YEARS since I read “Call Me by Your Name ” but I had the movie in my head. Tied up all of the characters quite nicely. Worth reading.

Archaeological thriller. Fun read with some history thrown in.

Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Sparsholt Affair” was pretty good—epic multi-generational story of loosening sexual mores in pre-War through modern England. Writing is beautiful, some of the best descriptive fiction I’ve ever read.

Originally published in 1888, "The Aspen Papers" is a good novella that makes the archivist in me both excited and horrified.

Fun art-themed, crime thriller.

Really beautiful telling of two friends and how young, unrequited love can change one forever.

Classic and funny 1946 sci-fi book where a nuclear disaster sterilizes all men—except one. Felt surprisingly modern.

Absolutely beautifully-written first novel by Genevieve Hudson. Queer, evangelicalism, football, and magical realism—all set in the American South.

The best book I’ve read in a long time, “The Binding” exists in a beautifully-created but severe world with flawed characters who you can’t help but root for. I couldn’t put it down and literally read it over the last twenty-four hours.

Through beautiful writing and near-perfect storytelling, “The Liar’s Dictionary” tells two parallel stories a century apart surrounding the inclusion then deletion of mountweazels in a never-published dictionary. My archival-sense was also tingling at the idea of being able to know the intimate history of someone from the past when only tiny fragments of their existence remain.