Picks · Literary · short · avoiding Romance
Five book club picks for a literary · short · avoiding romance group
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Top pick
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Woman sedates herself for a year in pre-9/11 Manhattan - darkly funny
Four more your club will like
- 2.The Remains of the Dayby Kazuo Ishiguro
Understated brilliance about regret and duty
- 3.The Roadby Cormac McCarthy
Father and son in a dead world - sparse prose, enormous emotional weight
- 4.Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
Pleasure as control - pairs perfectly with 1984 for compare-and-contrast
- 5.Crying in H Martby Michelle Zauner
Grief, Korean food, and identity - a memoir that hits every reader differently
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