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what begins life as a sharply observed domestic set piece slowly morphs into a courtroom drama. Waters combines a gripping thriller with period detail evoked with a faultless fluidity.

Guardian

77%
This is the strength of Chbosky’s writing. He crafts Charlie’s voice in a way that defies context. Charlie is inside every lonely teenager and every adult remembers him fondly. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a gift...

Guardian

74%
His work has been indispensible over the past four decades, and it will prove more important, more urgently resonant and more prescient, in the decades to come.

Globe and Mail

75%
This book is rich in detail of both the essential normalcy and the difficulties of a young person with cerebral palsy.

Kirkus

79%
Either version is worth a read. Not only is the portrait one of the most enduring images in popular culture, but our relentless lust for good looks at any price is perhaps more relevant today than ever.

Toronto Star

74%
We all know that life is tangled and messy. Still, in reminding readers of this fact, Lamb turns in a satisfyingly grown-up story, elegantly written.

Kirkus

72%
Is it surprising if a seed grows where it lands, once it’s been scattered? Can it be helped? In “Brooklyn,” Colm Toibin quietly, modestly shows how place can assert itself, enfolding the visitor, staking its claim.

NY Times

73%
I read When I Was a Child I Read Books slowly, not only because I was savouring the books’ gorgeous language, but also because I had to ride out the swells of wonder that another human soul could express ideas as crystalline and beautiful as those in her book.

Globe and Mail

83%
This book, in my eyes, was utter perfection. Told from the perspective of Ari, a quiet boy who has shrunk inside himself as he's grown up around a brother in prison who he knows nothing about, a mother in denial and a father haunted by the war. That's until Dante comes along.

Guardian

88%
A novella that builds to a provocative climax, one that is as spiritually profound as its prose is plainspoken...A work suffused with mystery and wonder.

Kirkus

79%
A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author...A tale of two magnificently imagined characters, and a plaintive love song to...the fractious ethnic energy of New York City a half century ago.

Kirkus

80%
It was part of life — not of my buttoned-up life, but of the noisy immigrant life made real in the pages of Betty Smith's novel — and it was sometimes a part that caused heartbreak or chaos.

NPR

81%
Despite her short life and limited literary output, Keegan’s legacy – her wisdom, optimism, her faith in people – will be far-reaching.

Guardian

84%
The Mad Hatter's youthful, disheveled appearance makes him resemble a modern hipster, and the pop-up trial scene features a flying pack of cards. A clever and inventive interpretation.

Publishers Weekly

78%
Composed, logically derived, this grim forecasting blueprints the means and methods of mass control, the techniques of maintaining power, the fundamentals of political duplicity, and offers as arousing a picture as the author's previous Animal Farm. Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration.

Kirkus

75%
. . .the timing couldn't be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which — like Hockney's own work — is both conversational and perceptive.

LA Times

70%
He insists that religion is a divisive and oppressive force, but he is less convincing in arguing that the world would be better and more peaceful without it.

Publishers Weekly

49%
Then Came You is a perfect summer read, complete with soap opera-like vignettes, romance and fantasy.

Globe and Mail

76%
Today, while not as merciless in its analysis as The House of Mirth, Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility.

Guardian

72%
Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will—Nelson’s novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal.

Publishers Weekly

84%

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