Novels that take their time and stay with you. Booker winners, book club picks, and quieter books that land harder than you expect.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is narrated by Kathy, remembering her school days at Hailsham, and it's best read without knowing where it's going. Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police is set on an island where things disappear and people forget they ever existed. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children follows a boy born at the exact moment of India's independence and won the Booker Prize. David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas nests six stories inside each other, from the 1850s Pacific to the far future, and Margaret Atwood's Booker-winning The Testaments returns to Gilead fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale.
For something newer, there are three recent GMA Book Club picks: Chloe Benjamin's Under Story, Portia Elan's Homebound, and Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear. Sierra Greer's Annie Bot is a short, sharp novel told by a robot built to be the perfect girlfriend, and Allen Levi's Theo of Golden became a word-of-mouth bestseller about an old man, a Georgia town, and small kindnesses.
And for books people reread: Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Raphael Bob-Waksberg's story collection Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, from the creator of BoJack Horseman.
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