Do you have a favorite fictionanigan?
BEST FICTION OF 2015: http://powells.us/1QyO2JQ
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
“Spunky, independent, and resourceful, Lily leads an astonishing life, and lives it on her own terms. This is storytelling at its best.” — Kelly
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Let Me Be Frank with You by Richard Ford
Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee
We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Dinner by César Aira
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
Vanessa & Her Sister by Priya Parmar
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
“Sharma has written a simple, shattering book about tragedy that takes you so completely on a journey that by the final line, Ajay (the narrator) is your avatar and the three minute disaster that shaped his life is your disaster. Family Life is one of those beautiful novels that tilts your perception of the world and changes you a bit. Read it!”
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Are you a perfictionist?
Question: Three stags walk into Powell’s, and each comes out with a book of his choosing: Alan, ever the dreamer, gets Summer House with Swimming Pool; J.T., who lives above the Dancers and Prancers nightclub, opts for To Rise Again at a Decent Hour; and Terrance, the stubborn one, chooses Can’t and Won’t. If there are six antlers, twelve hooves, and three tails between them, how many books, deerest reader, did they pay for?
Answer: Two! The third they got for free thanks to Powell’s More Books for Your Bucks Sale! No heads or tails about it.
Spotted! The YA Queer Genre Fiction section!
