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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Piranesi lives alone in an endless, dreamlike House of statues and tides, keeping careful records of its wonders. When a stranger's messages begin appearing in chalk on the floors, the world he thought he knew starts to unravel. Susanna Clarke's follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a hypnotic puzzle-box of a novel — equal parts fantasy, mystery, and meditation on memory.

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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan

In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant Bill Furlong senses the town's complicit silence around the local convent as Christmas approaches. Claire Keegan's slim, quietly devastating novella asks what it costs to do the right thing when everyone around you has agreed not to. Short enough to read in an evening — it stays with you far longer.

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The Overstory
Richard Powers

Nine strangers are drawn together by their relationships to trees — some just noticing them, others willing to risk everything to protect them. Richard Powers weaves their stories into a sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on how little we understand the living world around us. Ambitious, strange, and genuinely moving.

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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara is an Artificial Friend, watching the world from a store window and hoping to be chosen. When she finally is, she must learn what love and loyalty mean to the humans she's built to serve. Ishiguro's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize asks familiar questions about consciousness and devotion, and finds them unexpectedly moving.

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Circe
Madeline Miller

Circe is an odd child of the sun god Helios — too strange for the gods, too powerful to ignore — and is exiled to a deserted island once her powers are discovered. There she hones her craft as a witch and crosses paths with the most famous figures of Greek myth. Madeline Miller reimagines a minor character from the Odyssey as the hero of her own epic.

From a reader in Bengaluru

“We took eleven weeks over Life and Fate. I would not have finished it alone, and I would never have met him any other way.”

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Maya R.
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