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Five book club picks for a literary · long · avoiding romance group

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Top pick

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

AIDS crisis Chicago and modern Paris intertwined - devastating and beautiful

Four more your club will like

  1. 2.
    The Rose Code
    by Kate Quinn

    Bletchley Park codebreakers and a royal wedding - richly plotted

  2. 3.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

    Absurdist war satire that invented its own idiom - hilarious and maddening

  3. 4.
    The Great Alone
    by Kristin Hannah

    Alaska survival story with complex family dynamics

  4. 5.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

    Magical realism masterpiece that rewards a patient group read

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