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None of it is fair.
Here are ten that ought to be on it.
10.The Shapeless Unease,by Samantha Harvey
Cant sleep?
Take a homeopathic approach and allow like to cure like with Harveys crisp and nightmarish account of her insomnia.
A book about rest-starved desperation that reads with the dark enchantment of a fairy tale.
(But it is still fun, albeit in a horror-movie way.)
I wish Id had it in my arsenal when I dropped out of high school.
6.The Great Offshore Grounds,by Vanessa Veselka
Two words: feminist picaresque.
This is a twisty, chunky yarn of a novel engineered for total absorption.
The most hard-core novel of the year.
4.Piranesi,by Susanna Clarke
Ever had your heart broken by a puzzle?
I refuse to provide a plot summary; it is to your own benefit.
If McKay were alive, wed be swamped with rapturous profiles of him.
(My husband, next to me on the sofa: Why are you gasping?)
Villavicencio writes about growing up undocumented in America with violent intensity, humor, bravery, and style.