Books Worth Recommending

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Historical Fiction

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.

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Historical Fiction

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

A childhood betrayal in Kabul that takes a lifetime, and a return journey, to answer for.

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• Reading Challenge Pick
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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

Literary Fiction

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

A father and son walk south through ash, carrying the fire between them.

Biography & Memoir

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

Chris McCandless gave away his savings and walked into the Alaskan interior.

• Reading Challenge Pick

Biography & Memoir

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

Half memoir, half toolkit, from a writer with strong views about adverbs.

• Reading Challenge Pick

Nonfiction

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

Black holes, the Big Bang and the shape of time, explained for readers without equations.

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Literary Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and repeat themselves in the invented town of Macondo.

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Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

The woman whose cells were taken without consent, and the family who learned about it decades later.