A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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“I don’t. But I would. Books love to be used up. (Related: Middlesex is the best book I read in 2019. If you’re look…”
Source →Recommended by 3 notable people, including Oprah Winfrey and Joel Connolly
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 4 sources and appears in LGBTQ, Historical Fiction, and Most Recommended Books.
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."So begins the ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in LGBTQ, Historical Fiction, and Most Recommended Books.
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Joel Connolly
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“I don’t. But I would. Books love to be used up. (Related: Middlesex is the best book I read in 2019. If you’re look…”
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Consider The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Recommended by 5 sources.
“This sprawling, detail-rich historical novel follows cathedral builders, nobles, and townspeople across decades, delivering immersive scene-setting and a steady accumulation of plotlines. Its useful part is the sustained attention to craft—architecture, politics, rivalry—that makes the medieval world tangible. The main limitation is repetitive melodrama and swings in pacing: long, satisfying set pieces sit beside stretches that feel slow or contrived. Better read slowly rather than skimmed; readers who stick it out will find payoff in the concluding convergences.”
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