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From prior experience, we've learned the Readers Also Enjoyed/See Similar Books can be fluid. You would be well-advised to lock in any books you even remotely think you might want to read. All will be noted, though I probably won't acknowledge your posts.
I would like to lock in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, which is 'also enjoyed' by readers of The Nickel Boys
I spied two possibles:The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington on John Henry Days.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles on The Underground Railroad.
I'd like to note three titles: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland and The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington from John Henry Days.Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell from The Colossus of New York
(I bought a copy of this years ago and really want to get to it. This looks like the right season-journalist author, not-a-novel, oldies, and jumbo, thus far. Not to mention that it just sounds so interesting.)
I would like to lock in Great Apes by Will Self, similar to Apex Hides the Hurtand Educated by Tara Westover, similar to The Underground Railroad
From Nickel Boys, I'd like to lock in Long Bright River, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, and The Glass Hotel!
I have one to lock in for now ---Ducks, Newburyport similar to The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Thanks
Books I'm remotely interested in for lock in:Similar to Zone One:
The Glass Hotel
Severance
Similar to The Underground Railroad
The Dutch House
Between the World and Me
Girl, Woman, Other
How to Be an Antiracist
Such a Fun Age
An American Marriage
Similar to Nickel Boys:
Red at the Bone
Ask Again, Yes
Like Joanna above ....Books I'm remotely interested in for lock-in that haven't been mentioned yet:
Zone One
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
The Underground Railroad
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Nickel Boys
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Colossus of New York
Other People's Love Affairs by D. Wystan Owen
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Books I'd like to lock in, just in case...related to John Henry Days
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
related to The Intuitionist
The City We Became
related to Apex Hides the Hurt
The Book of V.
related to Sag Harbor
Weather
related to Zone One
Catherine House
The Companions
related to The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Relivings
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier
related to The Nickel Boys
American Dirt
Olive, Again
Disappearing Earth
Most of mine are already requested but I would like to lock in White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism listed on The Underground Railroad.
Not sure what i'll use yet, but locking in the following:- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood for the Nickel boys recommendations
From the Underground railroad recommendations :
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
I’d like to lock in these books. Don’t know what I will read yet, but covering my basesFor John Henry Days
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Yellow House by Sarah M. BroomThe Glass Hotel
For The Intuitionist
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
For Apex Hides the Hurt
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
For Sag Harbor
The Master by Colm TóibÃn
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
For Zone One
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Well I know Washington Black had been a similar for The Underground Railroad. Now I can’t find it as similar 5o @ny of his books. So I came here and now I read it’s a fluid list! It wouldn’t have been listed or locked in with RwS databases by any chance would it?
Rebekah wrote: "Well I know Washington Black had been a similar for The Underground Railroad. Now I can’t find it as similar 5o @ny of his books. So I came here and now I read it’s ..."Not at this time, Rebekah. But that section *is* very fluid. Keep checking - and I'll try to remember to watch for it too.
I’ll use it for scrabble and then if it does come back, I’ll just claim combo points.
Books I’d like to lock in pleaseSimilar to The Nickel Boys
The Water Dancer
Red at the Bone
Such a Fun Age
The Glass Hotel
Olive, Again
How to Be an Antiracist
Deacon King Kong
The Yellow House
Similar to The Underground Railroad
The Vanishing Half
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Heart of Aleppo: A Story of the Syrian Civil War
The Overstory
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Similar to Zone One
Home Before Dark
The End of October
Mexican Gothic
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration
Similar to Apex Hides the Hurt
Lark & Termite
On the Rez
Morality Play
Our Nig
Books similar to John Henry Days
The Long Home
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
Rebekah wrote: "Books I’d like to lock in pleaseSimilar to The Nickel Boys
The Water Dancer
Red at the Bone
Such a Fun Age
[book:The Glass Hotel|45..."
Added all of the titles not already pre-approved.
Sometimes the list changing comes in handy --- could I get Transcendent Kingdom approved for The Underground Railroad?
Karen Michele wrote: "Sometimes the list changing comes in handy --- could I get Transcendent Kingdom approved for The Underground Railroad?"Got it! :-)))
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Transcendent Kingdom (other topics)The Underground Railroad (other topics)
The Underground Railroad (other topics)
Transcendent Kingdom (other topics)
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (other topics)Ta-Nehisi Coates (other topics)
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Fiction
John Henry Days
The Intuitionist
Apex Hides the Hurt
Sag Harbor
Zone One
The Underground Railroad
The Nickel Boys
Non-Fiction
The Colossus of New York
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
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