quel's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 29 May 2024 12:13:39 -0700 60 quel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada]]> 48690161 A primeira publicação de Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, de Carolina Maria de Jesus, data de 1960, por isso, em 2020, quando se comemoram os 60 anos de sua existência, a Somos Educação fará uma edição especial desta que é uma obra muito importante para a literatura brasileira. Com um projeto gráfico renovado e capa assinada pelo artista No Martins, além do texto original da autora, este livro conta com um prefácio assinado pela escritora Cidinha da Silva, fotografias dos manuscritos de Carolina Maria de Jesus e uma fortuna crítica com escritores como Alberto Moravia; críticos literários, como Marisa Lajolo, Carlos Vogt, Elzira Divina Perpétua, Fernanda Miranda; historiadores, como José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy, e jornalistas, como Audálio Dantas, responsável pela publicação da primeira edição do livro, e Otto Lara Resende.]]> 197 Carolina Maria de Jesus quel 0 to-read 4.49 1960 Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
author: Carolina Maria de Jesus
name: quel
average rating: 4.49
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]]> Um brinde de cianureto 59041402
Mas quem poderia ter desejado a morte de Rosemary? Um marido traído, uma irmã invejosa, um amante ciumento ou uma esposa em busca de vingança? A única certeza é que nenhuma das pessoas que foram ao jantar naquela noite estava dizendo a verdade.]]> 256 Agatha Christie quel 0 to-read 3.85 1945 Um brinde de cianureto
author: Agatha Christie
name: quel
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 quel 0 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: quel
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> O Iluminado (O Iluminado, #1) 31206280 O romance, magistralmente levado ao cinema por Stanley Kubrick, continua apaixonando (e aterrorizando) novas gerações de leitores.

A luta assustadora entre dois mundos.

Um menino e o desejo assassino de poderosas forças malignas.

Uma família refém do mal.

Nesta guerra sem testemunhas, vencerá o mais forte.

Em O Iluminado, Stephen King conta a história de Danny Torrance, um menino em tudo extraordinário, capaz de ouvir pensamentos, transportar-se no tempo e olhar o passado e o futuro. Danny - para o bem ou para o mal? - é um iluminado.

Quando Jack Torrance consegue o emprego de zelador no velho hotel, todos os problemas da família parecem estar solucionados. Não mais o desemprego e as noites de bebedeiras. Não mais o sofrimento da esposa, Wendy. Tranquilidade e ar puro para o pequeno Danny livrar-se de vez das convulsões que assustam a família. Só que o Overlook, antigo palco de festas sofisticadas, noitadas de sexo e bebida, grandes negócios e paixões avassaladoras, é uma chaga aberta de ressentimento e desejo de vingança. Algo resiste nos longos corredores sombrios do hotel: algo terrivelmente poderoso e assustadoramente mau.

A luta assustadora entre dois mundos. Um menino e a ânsia assassina de poderosas forças malignas. Uma família refém do mal. Tudo isso está presente em O Iluminado, em uma guerra sem testemunhas onde só vencerá o mais forte.]]> 464 Stephen King 8581051014 quel 5 read-in-2020, lido-em-2022 4.37 1977 O Iluminado (O Iluminado, #1)
author: Stephen King
name: quel
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Racismo no movimento sufragista feminino (Portuguese Edition)]]> 40235724 54 Angela Y. Davis 8575596055 quel 5 read-in-2020 4.59 Racismo no movimento sufragista feminino (Portuguese Edition)
author: Angela Y. Davis
name: quel
average rating: 4.59
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rating: 5
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]]> Convite para um homicídio 58524591 272 Agatha Christie quel 5 favorites, my-favs 4.01 1950 Convite para um homicídio
author: Agatha Christie
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1950
rating: 5
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simplesmente o melhor livro da agatha christie
]]> Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 quel 5 my-favs 3.81 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: quel
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 5
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]]> Small Pleasures 51475209 Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and — on the brink of forty — living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.

When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen is now a friend, and her quirky and charming daughter Margaret a sort of surrogate child. And Jean doesn't mean to fall in love with Gretchen's husband, Howard, but Howard surprises her with his dry wit, his intelligence and his kindness — and when she does fall, she falls hard.

But he is married, and to her friend — who is also the subject of the story she is researching for the newspaper, a story that increasingly seems to be causing dark ripples across all their lives. And yet Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness...

But there will be a price to pay, and it will be unbearable.]]> 352 Clare Chambers 1474613888 quel 3 eu não sei se valeu a pena passar tantas páginas pra chegar onde esse livro chegou, e no final, tudo o que restou pra mim foi um sentimento amargo (mas não no bom sentido).]]> 3.69 2021 Small Pleasures
author: Clare Chambers
name: quel
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/06/28
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esse aqui tem altos e baixos, mais baixos do que altos se estivermos falando do final.
eu não sei se valeu a pena passar tantas páginas pra chegar onde esse livro chegou, e no final, tudo o que restou pra mim foi um sentimento amargo (mas não no bom sentido).
]]> The Beautiful Ones 55311334 From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.

When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.

But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.]]> 299 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 125078557X quel 0 to-read 3.84 2017 The Beautiful Ones
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> Seven Days in June 55648820
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.

Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...

With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538719107.]]> 336 Tia Williams quel 0 to-read 3.97 2021 Seven Days in June
author: Tia Williams
name: quel
average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)]]> 59651557 A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis – it leads to combustion.

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….

As an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. They require balance. And leaving the thermostat alone. And not stealing someone else’s food. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight.

The problem is, living with someone means getting to know them. And the more Mara finds out about Liam, the harder it is to loathe him…and the easier it is to love him.]]> 112 Ali Hazelwood 0593437810 quel 0 to-read 3.65 2022 Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)
author: Ali Hazelwood
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> Lucíola 2890732 176 José de Alencar 8525409545 quel 5 favorites josé de alencar tem uma escrita simplesmente fenomenal, e ouso dizer um pouco à frente de seu tempo. é uma história, de certa forma, extremamente atual: onde a prostituta cabe na sociedade?]]> 3.55 1862 Lucíola
author: José de Alencar
name: quel
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1862
rating: 5
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eu simplesmente amo esse livro e sempre volto a ler ele. não, não gosto desse conceito totalmente desnecessário que Lúcia "precisa" sofrer, mas esse livro tem tanto a ensinar e entreter. é o meu favorito de literatura brasileira, ao lado de o meu pé de laranja lima.
josé de alencar tem uma escrita simplesmente fenomenal, e ouso dizer um pouco à frente de seu tempo. é uma história, de certa forma, extremamente atual: onde a prostituta cabe na sociedade?
]]> <![CDATA[Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente (Hercule Poirot, #10)]]> 23006548
O trem expresso, porém, é detido a meio caminho da Iugoslávia por uma forte nevasca, e um passageiro com muitos inimigos é brutalmente assassinado durante a madrugada. Caberá a Poirot descobrir quem entre os passageiros teria sido capaz de tamanha atrocidade, antes que o criminoso volte a atacar ou escape de suas mãos.]]> 200 Agatha Christie 8520934781 quel 0 favorites 4.22 1934 Assassinato no Expresso do Oriente (Hercule Poirot, #10)
author: Agatha Christie
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1934
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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 quel 5 quero começar dizendo que este livro é a definição de trauma porn. e eu me sinto um lixo por ter me apaixonado por esse livro, por cada um dos personagens, por cada momento minimamente feliz e esperançoso, por cada rua de nova york que eu nem conheço e por cada sorriso que o jude deu.
a escrita é um pouco difícil de se acostumar, mas depois que você se acostuma, a leitra flui muito.
é um dos melhores livros que eu já li na minha vida mas eu não posso, nunca, em sã consciência, recomendá-lo para um amigo meu. não posso. não posso deixar mais ninguém sofrer como eu sofri.
por isso não leia "uma pequena vida" (que aliás, deveria ser chamado "um pouco de vida)]]> 4.27 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: quel
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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date added: 2022/04/22
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4,8 ⭐
quero começar dizendo que este livro é a definição de trauma porn. e eu me sinto um lixo por ter me apaixonado por esse livro, por cada um dos personagens, por cada momento minimamente feliz e esperançoso, por cada rua de nova york que eu nem conheço e por cada sorriso que o jude deu.
a escrita é um pouco difícil de se acostumar, mas depois que você se acostuma, a leitra flui muito.
é um dos melhores livros que eu já li na minha vida mas eu não posso, nunca, em sã consciência, recomendá-lo para um amigo meu. não posso. não posso deixar mais ninguém sofrer como eu sofri.
por isso não leia "uma pequena vida" (que aliás, deveria ser chamado "um pouco de vida)
]]> All Rhodes Lead Here 57605091 572 Mariana Zapata quel 0 to-read 4.24 2021 All Rhodes Lead Here
author: Mariana Zapata
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> Boy Parts 54388240
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention…

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.]]> 301 Eliza Clark 1910312630 quel 0 to-read 3.86 2020 Boy Parts
author: Eliza Clark
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Na casa dos sonhos 57490002
Carmen se apaixonou por uma mulher que parecia maravilhosa – elas fazem sexo, viajam juntas, conhecem as respectivas famílias –, mas que acaba se tornando opressiva e aterrorizante, apesar de ainda sedutora. Embora seja difícil resistir ao charme da companheira, a autora cada vez mais se dá conta de que os limites autoimpostos – aquelas balizas que fazem dela a pessoa que quer ser – estão sendo ignorados.
A casa dos sonhos deveria ser um lugar de felicidade e acolhimento, mas como é possível entender a transformação dela em assombro e violência? Em vez de traçar seu passado de forma linear, Carmen Maria Machado o fragmenta para alcançar o maior efeito possível na pessoa que lê, criando um mergulho emocional ao mesmo tempo angustiante e belo.
Neste livro de memórias ousado e brutal, Machado examina um relacionamento abusivo através de sua percepção pessoal, mas também por um viés cultural e sociológico. Ao registrar sua experiência de sexualidade queer e violência psicológica íntima, a autora chama ao palco personagens largamente marginalizados e esquecidos pela história que, invisíveis na narrativa coletiva, encontram ainda mais dificuldade para entender o significado de seus próprios sentimentos.

"Já que existem tão poucos relatos literários sobre relacionamentos abusivos entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, Machado forja uma nova maneira de contar sua história." – The Guardian

"Inovador a ponto de tirar o fôlego." – The New Yorker]]> 360 Carmen Maria Machado 6559210545 quel 0 to-read 4.40 2019 Na casa dos sonhos
author: Carmen Maria Machado
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]]> Black Cake 57926137 We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?

In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.

Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?

Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.]]> 385 Charmaine Wilkerson quel 0 to-read 4.06 2022 Black Cake
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> Lonely Castle in the Mirror 54633167
Delving into their emotional lives with sympathy and a generous warmth, Lonely Castle in the Mirror shows the unexpected rewards of reaching out to others. Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart-warming novel is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and vulnerability.]]> 355 Mizuki Tsujimura 0857527274 quel 0 to-read 4.25 2017 Lonely Castle in the Mirror
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)]]> 40495957
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...]]> 288 Alice Oseman 152722533X quel 0 to-read 4.43 2018 Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
author: Alice Oseman
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> The One (The Selection, #3) 18635016
When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants.]]> 323 Kiera Cass 0062059998 quel 4 4.14 2014 The One (The Selection, #3)
author: Kiera Cass
name: quel
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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the book is kinda okay, the middle is just pretty meh, but the ending makes up for it.
]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green quel 4 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
name: quel
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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more like 3.5 stars, but yeah. this book just makes me nostalgic and i'm here for it. it's everything a 13 year old girl wants to read and that's fine. it's not a masterpiece, but it's not bad either. i like how the ending isn't exactly what you expect and i find the writing really interesting and clever.
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 6 734 J.K. Rowling 0439139597 quel 5 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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average rating: 4.56
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]]> Divergent (Divergent, #1) 13335037
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024035 quel 3 4.13 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
name: quel
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> Norwegian Wood 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami 0375704027 quel 0 to-read 4.01 1987 Norwegian Wood
author: Haruki Murakami
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> Sputnik Sweetheart 9557 alternate cover can be found here

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.

Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...]]> 229 Haruki Murakami 0099448475 quel 0 to-read 3.85 1999 Sputnik Sweetheart
author: Haruki Murakami
name: quel
average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[My Year of Rest and Relaxation]]> 44279110
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.]]> 289 Ottessa Moshfegh 0525522131 quel 0 to-read 3.62 2018 My Year of Rest and Relaxation
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: quel
average rating: 3.62
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]]> <![CDATA[The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)]]> 36199084 A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...]]> 323 Helen Hoang 0451490819 quel 0 to-read 3.87 2018 The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
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]]> Convenience Store Woman 38357895
A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.]]> 163 Sayaka Murata quel 0 to-read 3.70 2016 Convenience Store Woman
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 quel 0 to-read 3.66 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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]]> Valley of the Dolls 581811 448 Jacqueline Susann 0802135196 quel 0 to-read 3.96 1966 Valley of the Dolls
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]]> The Vegetarian 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 quel 0 to-read 3.62 2007 The Vegetarian
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]]> <![CDATA[Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine]]> 31434883 No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.

Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .

the only way to survive is to open your heart.]]> 336 Gail Honeyman 0735220689 quel 0 to-read 4.21 2017 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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]]> Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 44527412
Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. She is depressed. She is mad. She is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every woman.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all..]]> 176 Cho Nam-Joo 1471184285 quel 0 to-read 4.13 2016 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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]]> Exciting Times 50175419 An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer

Ava moved to Hong Kong to find happiness, but so far, it isn’t working out. Since she left Dublin, she’s been spending her days teaching English to rich children—she’s been assigned the grammar classes because she lacks warmth—and her nights avoiding petulant roommates in her cramped apartment.

When Ava befriends Julian, a witty British banker, he offers a shortcut into a lavish life her meager salary could never allow. Ignoring her feminist leanings and her better instincts, Ava finds herself moving into Julian’s apartment, letting him buy her clothes, and, eventually, striking up a sexual relationship with him. When Julian’s job takes him back to London, she stays put, unsure where their relationship stands.

Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her. Ava has been carefully pretending that Julian is nothing more than an absentee roommate, so when Julian announces that he’s returning to Hong Kong, she faces a fork in the road. Should she return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?

Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.]]> 243 Naoise Dolan 0062968742 quel 0 to-read 3.20 2020 Exciting Times
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]]> Play It As It Lays 428 Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul - it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
]]> 231 Joan Didion 0374529949 quel 0 to-read 3.93 1970 Play It As It Lays
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke]]> 57876868
What have you done today to deserve your eyes?]]> 120 Eric LaRocca 1951658132 quel 0 to-read 2.93 2021 Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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]]> How to Kill Your Family 50224049
When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one – and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love… and murder.

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.

Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer.]]> 355 Bella Mackie quel 0 to-read 3.49 2021 How to Kill Your Family
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]]> A Cabeça do Santo 20744034 Desenvolvido na oficina de Gabriel García Márquez, o romance de Socorro Acioli conta a história de um jovem que descobre possuir o fantástico dom de ouvir as preces das mulheres para santo Antônio.

Pouco antes de morrer, a mãe de Samuel lhe faz um último pedido: que ele vá encontrar a avó e o pai que nunca conheceu. Mesmo contrariado, o rapaz cumpre a promessa e faz a pé o caminho de Juazeiro do Norte até a pequena cidade de Candeia, sofrendo todas as agruras do sol impiedoso do sertão do Ceará. Ao chegar àquela cidade quase fantasma, ele encontra abrigo num lugar curioso: a cabeça oca e gigantesca de uma estátua inacabada de santo Antônio, que jazia separada do resto do corpo. Mas as estranhezas não param aí: Samuel começa a escutar uma confusão de vozes femininas apenas quando está dentro da cabeça. Assustado, se dá conta de que aquilo são as preces que as mulheres fazem ao santo falando de amor. Seu primeiro contato na cidade será com Francisco, um rapaz de quem logo fica amigo e que resolve ajudá-lo a explorar comercialmente o seu dom da escuta, promovendo casamentos e outras artimanhas amorosas. Antes parada no tempo, a cidade aos poucos volta à vida, à medida que vai sendo tomada por fiéis de todos os cantos, atraídos pelo poder inaudito de Samuel. Em meio a esse tumulto, ele irá descobrir a verdade sobre o desaparecimento do pai e se apaixonar por uma voz misteriosa que se destaca entre as tantas outras que ecoam na cabeça do santo.

Já consagrada por seus livros infantojuvenis, a escritora Socorro Acioli apresenta este seu primeiro romance dirigido ao público adulto, desenvolvido na oficina Como Contar um Conto, promovida por Gabriel García Márquez em Cuba.]]> 168 Socorro Acioli 8535923691 quel 0 to-read 4.39 2014 A Cabeça do Santo
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]]> Apague a luz se for chorar 56950479
Cecília não sabe muito bem o que fazer com a própria vida. Depois de mudar de Brasília para o Rio de Janeiro, a jovem ainda não conseguiu encontrar um emprego nem organizar seu futuro.

João, pai solteiro de uma criança com paralisia cerebral, tenta levar a vida em Brasília como pode. Trabalha como veterinário na capital federal durante o dia e procura formas de ganhar mais dinheiro à noite – o objetivo é juntar quantia suficiente para bancar um tratamento experimental para o filho.

Quando os pais de Cecília morrem, ela é forçada a voltar para a pequena cidade de sua infância, onde eles ainda moravam. Mas uma dúvida começa a atormentá-la: a possibilidade de que eles foram assassinados. E João, desesperado por mais recursos, começa a se aventurar por trabalhos pouco recomendáveis.

Ao cruzar suas histórias, Fabiane Guimarães cria um suspense impactante sobre o que significa ser parte de uma família, e os limites que estamos dispostos a ultrapassar para mantê-la.]]> 176 Fabiane Guimarães 8556521770 quel 0 to-read 3.71 2021 Apague a luz se for chorar
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]]> Pequena Coreografia do Adeus 57718733 Entre lembranças da infância e da adolescência, e sonhos para o futuro, Julia encontra personagens essenciais para enfrentar a solidão ao mesmo tempo que ensaia sua própria coreografia, numa sequência de movimentos de aproximação e afastamento de seus pais que lhe traz marcas indeléveis.
Escrito com a prosa original que fez de Aline Bei uma das grandes revelações da literatura brasileira contemporânea, Pequena coreografia do adeus é um romance emocionante que mostra como nossas relações moldam quem somos.]]> 288 Aline Bei 6559210413 quel 0 to-read 4.32 2021 Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
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]]> Self-Help 90872
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.]]> 163 Lorrie Moore 0307277291 quel 0 to-read 4.13 1985 Self-Help
author: Lorrie Moore
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]]> Crime and Punishment 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky quel 0 to-read 4.26 1866 Crime and Punishment
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]]> The Great Gatsby 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 quel 0 to-read 3.93 1925 The Great Gatsby
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 quel 0 to-read 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 quel 0 to-read 4.14 1846 Jane Eyre
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez quel 0 to-read 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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]]> People We Meet on Vacation 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 364 Emily Henry 1984806750 quel 0 to-read 3.84 2021 People We Meet on Vacation
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]]> No One Is Talking About This 55881555
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"

Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.

Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.]]> 210 Patricia Lockwood 1526629763 quel 0 to-read 3.35 2021 No One Is Talking About This
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]]> Piranesi 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X quel 0 to-read 4.22 2020 Piranesi
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]]> Ariadne 54860614
When Theseus, the Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne's decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind?

Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.]]> 308 Jennifer Saint 125077358X quel 0 to-read 3.77 2021 Ariadne
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]]> Letters to a Young Poet 46199
A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.]]> 80 Rainer Maria Rilke 0486422453 quel 0 to-read 4.31 1929 Letters to a Young Poet
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]]> Unsettled Ground 53341634 What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?

Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.

But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly dangerous world as their mother's secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.

This is a thrilling novel of resilience and hope, of love and survival, that explores with dazzling emotional power how the truths closest to us are often hardest to see.
_]]> 289 Claire Fuller 0241457440 quel 0 to-read 3.73 2021 Unsettled Ground
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]]> Luster 51541496
Razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now.]]> 227 Raven Leilani 0374194327 quel 0 to-read 3.50 2020 Luster
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]]> Passarinha 18482874 224 Kathryn Erskine 8565859134 quel 0 to-read 4.60 2010 Passarinha
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]]> The Vanishing Half 51791252
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.]]> 343 Brit Bennett 0525536299 quel 0 to-read 4.11 2020 The Vanishing Half
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]]> <![CDATA[A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)]]> 40916679
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.]]> 433 Holly Jackson 1405293187 quel 0 to-read 4.29 2019 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)]]> 54189398
She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.

Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.

But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.]]> 487 Elena Armas 1668002531 quel 0 to-read 3.79 2021 The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)
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]]> Little Weirds 44284906 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find:

× The smell of honeysuckle
× Heartbreak
× A French-kissing rabbit
× A haunted house
× Death
× A vagina singing sad old songs
× Young geraniums in an ancient castle
× Birth
× A dog who appears in dreams as a spiritual guide
× Divorce
× Electromagnetic energy fields
× Emotional horniness
× The ghost of a sea captain
× And more

I hope you enjoy these little weirds.

Love,
Jenny Slate]]> 224 Jenny Slate quel 0 to-read 3.87 2019 Little Weirds
author: Jenny Slate
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Precisamos Falar Sobre o Kevin]]> 11406978 464 Lionel Shriver 8598078263 quel 3 read-in-2020 não gostei muito como a autora conduziu a história e o jeito que ela escreve (muito arrastado e lento), mas a temática é muito interessante então li até o fim. me emocionou em vários momentos mas em outros senti que faltou algo. quem sabe depois eu leio de novo e mude de ideia.]]> 4.46 2003 Precisamos Falar Sobre o Kevin
author: Lionel Shriver
name: quel
average rating: 4.46
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rating: 3
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achei ok.
não gostei muito como a autora conduziu a história e o jeito que ela escreve (muito arrastado e lento), mas a temática é muito interessante então li até o fim. me emocionou em vários momentos mas em outros senti que faltou algo. quem sabe depois eu leio de novo e mude de ideia.
]]> <![CDATA[O Sol e o Peixe: Prosas Poéticas]]> 24423773 e incerta comparada com a dos peixes.”

É Virginia Woolf, em “O sol e o peixe”, ensaio que dá título à presente coletânea, na qual se reúnem nove de suas prosas mais poéticas. Nelas, Virginia contrasta a visão de um eclipse total do sol com a dos peixes num aquário de Londres; discorre sobre Montaigne e sobre a paixão da leitura; relembra, em traços delicados e comoventes, a convivência com o pai; teoriza sobre a nascente arte do cinema e sobre as relações entre a literatura e a pintura; enaltece as paradoxais vantagens de se ficar doente; celebra as belezas naturais de Sussex e as delícias urbanas de uma caminhada fortuita por Londres. Eis aqui Virginia, em toda a força poética de sua prosa.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf 858217487X quel 4 lido-em-2021, lido-em-2022 cada conto, crônica ou prosa (como queira chamar), te envolve num mundinho confortável e instigante. não consigo nem escolher uma história favorita - o livro todo é bem feito e escrito.]]> 3.94 1928 O Sol e o Peixe: Prosas Poéticas
author: Virginia Woolf
name: quel
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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eu sou apaixonada por prosas poéticas, então resolvi pegar esse livro como o primeiro pra ler da virginia woolf e não estou nem um pouco decepcionada.
cada conto, crônica ou prosa (como queira chamar), te envolve num mundinho confortável e instigante. não consigo nem escolher uma história favorita - o livro todo é bem feito e escrito.
]]> Ugly Love 17788401
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.]]> 330 Colleen Hoover quel 2 lido-em-2022 primeiro de tudo, queria elogiar a escrita da colleen hoover, gostei das suas descrições e do ritmo que ela propõe ao leitor para narrar a história.
mas que histórias são essas????
fui ler esse livro porque queria ler colleen hoover e esse era o gratuito do kindleunlimited, peguei e nem li a sinopse. eu não tenho um problema com a história em si, mas eu não gosto de ler muito smut.
tirando isso, os personagens são MUITO rasos. tirando os capítulos sobre o passado do miles, o que sabemos dele? e sobre a tate? os dois não tem personalidade, gostos, NADA. tate por exemplo parece viver em função do miles.
achei o livro como um todo meio raso também. parece aquelas críticas de facebook que tentam ser profundas mas falham miseravelmente. não tem um personagem que eu consiga descrever pelo menos 3 características marcantes da personalidade, talvez o cap (único que eu gostei também).
e o maior problema dessa história toda com certeza é o miles. sério, se fosse uma amiga minha me contando as coisas que ele fez eu ia mandar ela chamar a polícia. por vários momentos ele foi possessivo e manipulador, e sim, o passado dele é triste, mas a tate não tem nada a ver com isso. ele é um covarde medroso.
enfim, vou tentar outros livros da autora só porque a bel rodrigues ama.]]> 4.00 2014 Ugly Love
author: Colleen Hoover
name: quel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2022/03/15
date added: 2022/03/24
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1.5 ⭐
primeiro de tudo, queria elogiar a escrita da colleen hoover, gostei das suas descrições e do ritmo que ela propõe ao leitor para narrar a história.
mas que histórias são essas????
fui ler esse livro porque queria ler colleen hoover e esse era o gratuito do kindleunlimited, peguei e nem li a sinopse. eu não tenho um problema com a história em si, mas eu não gosto de ler muito smut.
tirando isso, os personagens são MUITO rasos. tirando os capítulos sobre o passado do miles, o que sabemos dele? e sobre a tate? os dois não tem personalidade, gostos, NADA. tate por exemplo parece viver em função do miles.
achei o livro como um todo meio raso também. parece aquelas críticas de facebook que tentam ser profundas mas falham miseravelmente. não tem um personagem que eu consiga descrever pelo menos 3 características marcantes da personalidade, talvez o cap (único que eu gostei também).
e o maior problema dessa história toda com certeza é o miles. sério, se fosse uma amiga minha me contando as coisas que ele fez eu ia mandar ela chamar a polícia. por vários momentos ele foi possessivo e manipulador, e sim, o passado dele é triste, mas a tate não tem nada a ver com isso. ele é um covarde medroso.
enfim, vou tentar outros livros da autora só porque a bel rodrigues ama.
]]> Radio Silence 25322449
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?

Frances has been a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself.

So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught between who she was and who she longs to be. Now Frances knows that she has to confront her past. To confess why Carys disappeared…

Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.

Engaging with themes of identity, diversity and the freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tour de force by the most exciting writer of her generation.]]> 496 Alice Oseman quel 5 favorites, lido-em-2022 eu amei cada detalhe, personagem (menos Carol), cada descrição, TUDO. eu amei como é uma história ao mesmo tempo simples e mirabolante, algo que poderia ter acontecido comigo.
me vejo na frances. no aled. no daniel. na carys. na raine. me vejo nas descrições, nas inseguranças, nos pensamentos, nos gostos deles.
acho que minha vida teria sido muito mais fácil se eu tivesse lido esse livro 4 anos atrás. eu teria descoberto e entendido as coisas que só sei agora.
alice oseman escreve de uma maneira tão instigante e divertida. tudo ali é tão real, o mundo que ela cria é palpável e familiar. estou simplesmente apaixonada por esse livro.]]> 4.18 2016 Radio Silence
author: Alice Oseman
name: quel
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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eu não sei como começar a explicar radio silence. que livro ESPETACULAR
eu amei cada detalhe, personagem (menos Carol), cada descrição, TUDO. eu amei como é uma história ao mesmo tempo simples e mirabolante, algo que poderia ter acontecido comigo.
me vejo na frances. no aled. no daniel. na carys. na raine. me vejo nas descrições, nas inseguranças, nos pensamentos, nos gostos deles.
acho que minha vida teria sido muito mais fácil se eu tivesse lido esse livro 4 anos atrás. eu teria descoberto e entendido as coisas que só sei agora.
alice oseman escreve de uma maneira tão instigante e divertida. tudo ali é tão real, o mundo que ela cria é palpável e familiar. estou simplesmente apaixonada por esse livro.
]]> <![CDATA[As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)]]> 56905097 The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...]]> 500 Holly Jackson 0593379853 quel 0 to-read 4.20 2021 As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
author: Holly Jackson
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]]> Mr Salary 34234631 My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.

Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.

Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.]]> 33 Sally Rooney 0571351956 quel 0 to-read 3.75 2016 Mr Salary
author: Sally Rooney
name: quel
average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Love Hypothesis 56732449 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor—and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. And when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding. . . six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]> 356 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 quel 0 to-read 4.10 2021 The Love Hypothesis
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: quel
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2021
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]]> The Shining (The Shining #1) 12977531 659 Stephen King quel 5 lido-em-2021, favorites 4.28 1977 The Shining (The Shining #1)
author: Stephen King
name: quel
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> Flores para Algernon 6630432 299 Daniel Keyes 846751146X quel 0 to-read 4.46 1966 Flores para Algernon
author: Daniel Keyes
name: quel
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1966
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]]> O Peso do Pássaro Morto 38898355 O Peso do Pássaro Morto, romance de estreia de Aline Bei, onde acompanhamos uma mulher que, com todas as forças, tenta não coincidir apenas com a dor de que é feita.]]> 168 Aline Bei 8569020236 quel 0 to-read 4.45 2017 O Peso do Pássaro Morto
author: Aline Bei
name: quel
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2017
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]]> Carrie 10592
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover]]> 272 Stephen King 1416524304 quel 0 to-read 4.00 1974 Carrie
author: Stephen King
name: quel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1974
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]]> The Paris Apartment 58468990 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide…

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.]]> 360 Lucy Foley 0063003058 quel 0 to-read 3.62 2022 The Paris Apartment
author: Lucy Foley
name: quel
average rating: 3.62
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]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 quel 0 to-read 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
author: Art Spiegelman
name: quel
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1980
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]]> We Were Liars 16143347 A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.

And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.]]> 242 E. Lockhart 0385741278 quel 4 lido-em-2022 eu estava no avião quando terminei de ler esse livro, do lado de um casal de estranhos que precisaram me ver chorando inconsavelmente com o final desse livro.
o mistério é MUITO interessante, os personagens são propositalmente rasos e "perfeitos demais", até que a autora não queira mais. a escrita é muito boa e fluída, e caddy conduz bem a história.
eu gosto do final, mas entendo porquê muita gente não gosta. por alguns detalhes aqui e ali, e um capítulo em específico, esse livro não ganha 5 estrelas. mas quero muito ler mais da autora!]]> 3.65 2014 We Were Liars
author: E. Lockhart
name: quel
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2022/03/10
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review:
3.8 ⭐
eu estava no avião quando terminei de ler esse livro, do lado de um casal de estranhos que precisaram me ver chorando inconsavelmente com o final desse livro.
o mistério é MUITO interessante, os personagens são propositalmente rasos e "perfeitos demais", até que a autora não queira mais. a escrita é muito boa e fluída, e caddy conduz bem a história.
eu gosto do final, mas entendo porquê muita gente não gosta. por alguns detalhes aqui e ali, e um capítulo em específico, esse livro não ganha 5 estrelas. mas quero muito ler mais da autora!
]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 quel 0 to-read 3.80 1993 The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: quel
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]]> A Troca 55125253 Leena está cansada da vida na casa dos vinte.
Talvez seja hora de elas trocarem de lugar ...

Quando a superestimada Leena Cotton é obrigada a tirar um ano sabático de dois meses após estragar uma grande apresentação no trabalho, ela foge para a casa de sua avó Eileen para descansar um pouco. Eileen acabou de ficar solteira e está prestes a fazer oitenta anos. Ela gostaria de uma segunda chance no amor, mas sua pequena vila em Yorkshire não oferece muitos cavalheiros elegíveis.

Depois que Leena descobre a situação romântica de Eileen, ela propõe uma solução: uma troca de dois meses. Eileen pode morar em Londres e procurar o amor. Enquanto isso, Leena cuidará de tudo na zona rural de Yorkshire. Mas com vizinhos fofoqueiros e dinâmicas familiares difíceis de navegar pelo norte, e colegas de apartamento da moda em Londres e encontros online para enfrentar na cidade, colocar-se no lugar do outro é mais difícil do que qualquer um deles esperava.

Leena descobre que um relacionamento à distância não é tão romântico quanto ela esperava que fosse, e então há o irritantemente perfeito - e distraidamente bonito - professor, que continua aparecendo para superar seus esforços para impressionar os moradores locais. De volta a Londres, Eileen é um grande sucesso com seus novos vizinhos, mas será que seu par perfeito está mais perto de casa do que ela pensava?]]> 352 Beth O'Leary 8551005944 quel 0 to-read 4.12 2020 A Troca
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]]> My Dark Vanessa 44890081
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.

2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?

Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.]]> 373 Kate Elizabeth Russell 006294150X quel 0 to-read 4.09 2020 My Dark Vanessa
author: Kate Elizabeth Russell
name: quel
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Adivinha quem não voltou pra casa?]]> 54082892
Se dona Mônica tivesse levado o celular ou ligado de algum telefone público, os filhos definitivamente teriam tido uma noite melhor. Agora, cansados e irritados — pela noite sem dormir, pela preocupação com a mãe, pelo medo do abandono —, Murilo e Melissa percorrem a cidade em busca da mãe desaparecida ao mesmo tempo em que lidam com uma verdade aterrorizante: um dia, as pessoas que amamos seguirão seus próprios caminhos.]]> 68 Pedro Poeira quel 0 to-read 3.97 2020 Adivinha quem não voltou pra casa?
author: Pedro Poeira
name: quel
average rating: 3.97
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]]> Mulheres, Raça e Classe 34119228 331 Angela Y. Davis 8575595083 quel 5 preciso reler 4.77 1981 Mulheres, Raça e Classe
author: Angela Y. Davis
name: quel
average rating: 4.77
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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preciso reler
]]> O que encontramos nas chamas 56041496
"Real e marcante, cada palavra permaneceu comigo depois da leitura, à espreita. Todo mundo deveria ler o que Mayra Sigwalt tem a dizer." - Iris Figueiredo, autora de "Céu sem estrelas"]]> 75 Mayra Sigwalt quel 0 to-read 4.60 2020 O que encontramos nas chamas
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average rating: 4.60
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]]> I Am Not Your Final Girl 38197382 91 Claire C. Holland quel 0 to-read 3.68 2018 I Am Not Your Final Girl
author: Claire C. Holland
name: quel
average rating: 3.68
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]]> A Lista de Convidados 56873122
But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?]]> 301 Lucy Foley quel 0 to-read 3.88 2020 A Lista de Convidados
author: Lucy Foley
name: quel
average rating: 3.88
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]]> Sharp Objects 18045891
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)]]> 254 Gillian Flynn 0297851535 quel 0 to-read 4.05 2006 Sharp Objects
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]]> O adulto 30990106 Uma jovem ganha a vida praticando pequenas fraudes. Seu principal talento é a capacidade de dizer às pessoas exatamente o que elas querem ouvir, e sua mais recente ocupação consiste em se passar por vidente, oferecendo o serviço de leitura de aura para donas de casa ricas e tristes.

Certo dia, ela atende Susan Burkes, que se mudou há pouco tempo para a cidade com o marido, o filho pequeno e o enteado adolescente. Experiente observadora do comportamento humano, a falsa sensitiva logo enxerga em Susan uma mulher desesperada por injetar um pouco de emoção em sua vida monótona e planeja tirar vantagem da situação.

No entanto, quando visita a impressionante mansão dos Burke, que Susan acredita ser a causa de seus problemas, e se depara com acontecimentos aterrorizantes, a jovem se convence de que há algo tenebroso à espreita. Agora, ela precisa descobrir onde o mal se esconde, e como escapar dele. Se é que há alguma chance.

Em seu estilo inconfundível que arrebatou milhares de fãs, Gillian Flynn traça surpreendentes e intrigantes perfis psicológicos dos personagens e tece uma narrativa repleta de suspense ao mesmo tempo em que brinca com elementos clássicos do sobrenatural.

“Gillian Flynn é perfeita. Afiada, ácida, uma contadora de histórias convincente com talento especial para o macabro.”Stephen King

“De tirar o fôlego.”The Times

“Assustador.” Independent

]]> 57 Gillian Flynn 8580579465 quel 0 to-read 3.60 2014 O adulto
author: Gillian Flynn
name: quel
average rating: 3.60
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]]> <![CDATA[O Clube do Crime das Quintas-feiras]]> 57602011
Com todos os integrantes acima dos setenta anos, o Clube do Crime das Quintas-Feiras não é a equipe de detetives mais convencional em que se conseguiria pensar, mas com certeza está mais do que acostumada a fortes emoções. Afinal, Joyce foi enfermeira por décadas, Ibrahim ajudou pacientes psiquiátricos em situações dificílimas, Ron era um reconhecido líder sindical e Elizabeth... bom, digamos que assassinatos e redes de contatos sigilosas não eram nenhuma novidade para ela.

Quando um empreiteiro local com projetos bastante questionáveis na cidade aparece morto, o grupo tem a oportunidade de seguir as pistas de um caso atual. Apostando em seus semblantes inocentes e habilidades investigativas estranhamente eficazes ― além de trocas de favores clandestinas com a polícia, que, apesar de todos os esforços, parece estar sempre um passo atrás de seus colegas amadores ―, os quatro amigos embarcam em uma aventura na qual as mortes do presente se entrelaçam com antigos segredos, e em que saber demais pode trazer consequências perigosas.]]> 336 Richard Osman quel 0 to-read 3.78 2020 O Clube do Crime das Quintas-feiras
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]]> O Enigma do Quarto 622 56283659 This is an alternate cover edition (ACE) for
ISBN-13: 9786555600889

Numa noite de dezembro, um cadáver jaz no chão do quarto 622 do Palace de Verbier, um luxuoso hotel nos Alpes suíços. A morte misteriosa ocorre em plena festa anual de um prestigiado banco suíço, nas vésperas da nomeação do seu presidente. A investigação policial nada conclui e a passagem do tempo leva a que o caso seja praticamente esquecido.

Quinze anos mais tarde, o escritor Joël Dicker hospeda-se nesse mesmo hotel para recuperar de um desgosto amoroso e para fazer o luto do seu estimado editor. Ao dar entrada no hotel para o que esperava ser uns dias de tranquilidade e inspiração, não imaginava que acabaria a investigar esse crime do passado. Não o fará sozinho: Scarlett, uma bela mulher hospedada no quarto ao lado do seu, acompanhá-lo-á na resolução do mistério, ao mesmo tempo que vai decifrando a receita para escrever um bom livro.

O que aconteceu naquela noite de Inverno no Palace de Verbier?
Que crime terrível teve lugar no quarto 622?
E porquê?
Estas são as perguntas-chave deste thriller veloz, construído com a habitual mestria de Joël Dicker, que pela primeira vez nos leva ao seu país para narrar uma história surpreendente.

Um triângulo amoroso, jogos de poder, traição e inveja – nada falta a esta intriga magnética, em que a verdade é muito diferente do que imaginávamos.]]> 528 Joël Dicker quel 0 to-read 4.12 2020 O Enigma do Quarto 622
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]]> Véspera 59433788
Os personagens de Véspera, este seu novo romance, possuem a mesma incrível força vital. Mas se em Tudo é rio Carla os criou com poucas pinceladas e traços incisivos, aqui, para delinear suas personalidades, ela opta por uma superposição de camadas psicológicas. Se antes eles primavam por temperamentos drásticos ― capazes de extremos de paixão, ciúme, ódio e perdão ―, aqui a estratégia gradativa de composição confere-lhes uma dose maior de mistério, sugerindo ao leitor antecipações que só aos poucos se confirmam, ou não.
A força emocional continua existindo, porém está menos visível, o que deixa a atmosfera ainda mais carregada de suspense e tensão. A narrativa começa com a pergunta: como se chega ao extremo? Vedina, uma mulher destroçada por um casamento marcado pelo desamor, em um momento de descontrole abandona seu filho e, imediatamente arrependida, volta para o lugar onde o deixou e não encontra quaisquer vestígios de sua presença.
Este é o acontecimento nuclear da trama que expõe as entranhas de uma família – pai alcóolatra, mãe controladora, irmãos gêmeos tensionados pelas diferenças – que, como tantas outras famílias, torna-se um lugar onde as singularidades de cada um não são acolhidas, criando rachaduras por onde a violência se infiltra.]]> 280 Carla Madeira 6555872985 quel 0 to-read 4.29 2021 Véspera
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]]> Thirteen Reasons Why 29844228 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]> 352 Jay Asher 1595147888 quel 1 o problema desse livro é que ele é MUITO mal contado. além de insinuar que um suicídio é culpa dos outros. existem MUITAS camadas pra serem exploradas sobre isso, mas tudo fica muito raso no livro.
no fim das contas, você pode sair com duas impressões do livro:
1) as outras pessoas mataram a hannah (o que não é totalmente verdade)
2) a hannah só queria chamar atenção (o que não é totalmente verdade)
por contar uma história delicada de forma simplória, não importa como você enxerga a vida (e morte) de hannah baker no final, porque nem mesmo o autor parece entender onde quer chegar com isso.]]> 3.71 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
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1 ⭐
o problema desse livro é que ele é MUITO mal contado. além de insinuar que um suicídio é culpa dos outros. existem MUITAS camadas pra serem exploradas sobre isso, mas tudo fica muito raso no livro.
no fim das contas, você pode sair com duas impressões do livro:
1) as outras pessoas mataram a hannah (o que não é totalmente verdade)
2) a hannah só queria chamar atenção (o que não é totalmente verdade)
por contar uma história delicada de forma simplória, não importa como você enxerga a vida (e morte) de hannah baker no final, porque nem mesmo o autor parece entender onde quer chegar com isso.
]]> Speak 39280444
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.

In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.]]> 224 Laurie Halse Anderson 0374311250 quel 0 to-read 4.13 1999 Speak
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]]> Uglies (Uglies, #1) 24770
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever....]]> 425 Scott Westerfeld 0689865384 quel 0 &gt;&gt;&gt; preciso reler 3.85 2005 Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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]]> Let It Snow 33290383

Alternate cover edition for B006MOW98E]]> 353 John Green quel 4 esse livro tem altos e baixos. alguns contos são EXTREMAMENTE divertidos, como o do john green (possivelmente o melhor de todos). o primeiro é divertidinho e clichê, mas o último conto é um SACO. eu não me simpatizei nem um pouco pela personagem, suas ambições e seus sentimentos. foi um porre ler o último conto. mas os outros compensam, e o final é bonzinho]]> 3.57 2008 Let It Snow
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3.5 ⭐
esse livro tem altos e baixos. alguns contos são EXTREMAMENTE divertidos, como o do john green (possivelmente o melhor de todos). o primeiro é divertidinho e clichê, mas o último conto é um SACO. eu não me simpatizei nem um pouco pela personagem, suas ambições e seus sentimentos. foi um porre ler o último conto. mas os outros compensam, e o final é bonzinho
]]> Looking for Alaska 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]> 221 John Green 1435249151 quel 1 &gt;&gt; preciso reler 3.97 2005 Looking for Alaska
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak quel 4 &gt;&gt;&gt; preciso reler 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
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]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 quel 0 to-read 4.12 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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]]> Um Milhão de Finais Felizes 40567632
Mas é quando ele conhece Arthur, um belo garoto de barba ruiva, que Jonas passa a questionar por quanto tempo conseguirá viver sob as expectativas de seus pais, fingindo ser uma pessoa diferente de quem é de verdade. Buscando conforto em seus amigos (e na sua história sobre dois piratas bonitões que se parecem muito com ele e Arthur), Jonas entenderá o verdadeiro significado de família e amizade, e descobrirá o poder de uma boa história.]]> 352 Vitor Martins 8525065374 quel 0 to-read 4.44 2018 Um Milhão de Finais Felizes
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]]> Enquanto eu não te encontro 57738024 Em seu livro de estreia, Pedro Rhuas traz uma história sobre amor à primeira vista, encontros e desencontros, cultura nordestina, música pop e drag queens.

Nenhum encontro é por acaso.

A vida tem sido boa para Lucas. Ele passou no Enem para estudar publicidade; se mudou com Eric, seu melhor amigo, do interior do Rio Grande do Norte para a capital; e conseguiu sua tão aguardada liberdade. Mas, no amor, Lucas é um desastre. O maior fã de Katy Perry no Nordeste tem certeza de que nem toda a sorte do mundo poderia fazer com que ele finalmente se apaixonasse pela primeira vez.

Até que, em uma despretensiosa noite de sábado em 2015, tudo muda. Quando Lucas e Eric vão na inauguração do Titanic, a mais nova balada da cidade, Lucas esbarra (literalmente!) em Pierre, um lindo garoto francês que parece ter saído dos seus sonhos. Em meio a drinques, segredos e sonhos partilhados, Lucas e Pierre se conectam instantaneamente. Eles vivem o encontro mais especial de suas vidas, mas o Universo tem outros planos para o futuro… Até a noite acabar, o que será que vai acontecer com eles?

Com uma voz original e divertida, repleta de referências pop e à cultura do Rio Grande do Norte, o livro de estreia de Pedro Rhuas vai te fazer rir alto e se apaixonar.]]> 272 Pedro Rhuas 8555341531 quel 0 to-read 3.75 2021 Enquanto eu não te encontro
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]]> Axioma 59021240
Em segundo lugar, está se preparar para o grande evento que é encontrar — ou melhor, reencontrar — Vinícius Carvalho.

Vinícius é a promessa mundial para o mundo dos skates, e também uma bagunça de incertezas, memórias e sentimentos antigos para a ginasta. Uma parte inegável de si que ela não vê há anos. Deveria ser algo encerrado, mas ela tem a impressão de que não seria capaz de esquecer seu passado com o rapaz tão facilmente.

Muito menos quando ele não parece disposto a deixar que ela esqueça, para piorar.]]> 182 Cora Menestrelli quel 0 to-read 3.90 2021 Axioma
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]]> <![CDATA[No Body No Crime: Um Conto Evermore]]> 57862465
Quem é o responsável pelo desaparecimento do casal? O criminoso é o mesmo ou seriam pessoas diferentes?

Em No Body No Crime você conheceu Este, seu marido traidor e sua amiga vingativa.

Em No Body No Crime, Um Conto Evermore, a partir da narração dessa amiga, você conhecerá não só um pouco da história por trás dos dois desaparecimentos, como também descobrirá os fatores que levaram o casal a esse cruel destino.]]> 27 Yas Kettermann quel 0 to-read 3.34 2021 No Body No Crime: Um Conto Evermore
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]]> Eu e esse meu coração 42415340 424 C.C. Hunter 8555391210 quel 0 to-read 4.08 2018 Eu e esse meu coração
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]]> <![CDATA[Mil beijos de garoto (Mil beijos de garoto, #1)]]> 36318349 Um beijo dura um instante.
Mas mil beijos podem durar uma vida inteira.
Um garoto.
Uma garota.
Um vínculo que é definido num momento e se prolonga por uma década.
Um vínculo que nem o tempo nem a distância podem romper.
Um vínculo que vai durar para sempre.
Ao menos era o que eles imaginavam.

Quando, aos dezessete anos, Rune Kristiansen retorna da Noruega para o lugar onde passou a infância – a cidade americana de Blossom Grove, na Geórgia –, ele só tem uma coisa em mente: reencontrar Poppy Litchfield, a garota que era sua cara-metade e que tinha prometido esperar fielmente por seu retorno. E ele quer descobrir por que, nos dois anos em que esteve fora, ela o deletou de sua vida sem dar nenhuma explicação.]]> 425 Tillie Cole 8542210360 quel 0 to-read 3.70 2016 Mil beijos de garoto (Mil beijos de garoto, #1)
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]]> The Color Purple 52892857 Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

“Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones

“The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon]]> 287 Alice Walker 0143135694 quel 0 to-read 4.40 1982 The Color Purple
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