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9 Fast Reads You Can Finish in a Weekend

9 Fast Reads You Can Finish in a Weekend
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9 Fast Reads You Can Finish in a Weekend
'The Dark Room' by Jonathan Moore(01 of09)
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"San Francisco has never been so menacing."Moore’s (The Poison Artist, 2016, etc.) complex and often deeply disturbing crime noir set in the City by the Bay delves into dark subjects and the insidious nature of true evil.Read full book review.
'False Friend' by Andrew Grant(02 of09)
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"A quick, enjoyable entry in the series."An incendiary thriller featuring the return of Birmingham, Alabama, detective Cooper Devereaux (False Positive, 2015).Read full book review.
'Difficult Women' by Roxane Gay(03 of09)
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"Not every story works, but Gay is an admirable risk-taker in her exploration of women’s lives and new ways to tell their stories."A collection of stories unified in theme—the struggles of women claiming independence for themselves—but wide-ranging in conception and form.Read full book review.
'At the End of the world: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic' by Lawrence Millman(04 of09)
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"Even those who find the jeremiad too strident should be impressed with the manner by which Millman connects the dots."A true-crime account of an Arctic mass murder in the 1940s blends subtly with a prophecy about the dangers of cyberaddiction.Read full book review.
'The Man Who Shot My Eye Out Is Dead' by Chanelle Benz(05 of09)
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"An ambitious book that marks Benz as a writer to watch."A wide-ranging debut collection that spans time, genre, and place.Read full book review.
'The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret' by Catherine Hewitt(06 of09)
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"A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of a determined and talented woman and of an era."A biographer debuts with the astonishing story of Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne (1848-1910), who rose from poverty and prostitution to enormous wealth, influence, and controversy.Read full book review.
'The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story' by Douglas Preston(07 of09)
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"A story that moves from thrilling to sobering, fascinating to downright scary—trademark Preston, in other words, and another winner."“Once again I had the strong feeling, when flying into the valley, that I was leaving the twenty-first century entirely”: another perilous Preston (The Kraken Project, 2014, etc.) prestidigitation.Read full book review.
'The Agent Runner' by Simon Conway(08 of09)
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"Conway (Rock Creek Park, 2012, etc.) finds an offbeat way to recast an iconic piece of recent history through the personal stories of a pair of vastly different characters."A fictionalized account of events before and after the killing of Osama bin Laden, seen through the eyes of two men on opposite sides of the conflict.Read full book review.
'Like Death' by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Richard Howard(09 of09)
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"A finely shaded portrait of desire, will, and the complex entanglements of love, set against cutting social commentary from a realist master."The psychoemotional precision of Maupassant in an elegant new translation by celebrated translator Howard.Read full book review.

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