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tomf (edited )LinkThe Entire List Title Author Genre Similar... All Fours Miranda July Sexy Perimenopause Fiction Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino Speculative Fiction The Book of Strange New...The Entire List
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Jemisin The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk Historical Fiction When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut and Trust by Hernan Diaz The Familiar Leigh Bardugo Historical Fantasy Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik and Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness A Film in Which I Play Everyone Mary Jo Bang Poetry The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn and Exit Opera by Kim Addonizio Forest of Noise Mosab Abu Toha Poetry The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché Funny Story Emily Henry Summer Rom-Com Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn and Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory Ghostroots ’Pemi Aguda Horror Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link The God of the Woods Liz Moore Thriller The Fever by Megan Abbott and Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin Godwin Joseph O’Neill Literary Fiction The Darling by Russell Banks Good Material Dolly Alderton Romantic Comedy Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Great Expectations Vinson Cunningham Political Fiction Primary Colors by Anonymous Headshot Rita Bullwinkel Punchy Debut Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka The Hunter Tana French Thriller Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Intermezzo Sally Rooney Sad Irish Millenial Fiction The Idiot by Elif Batuman and Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck James Percival Everett Reimagined Classic Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and The Fraud by Zadie Smith Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Paul Muldoon Poetry The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins and House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson Long Island Compromise Taffy Brodesser-Akner Family Saga The Bee Sting by Paul Murray and White Teeth by Zadie Smith Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Uncategorizable The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and Empty Hearts by Juli Zeh The Mighty Red Louise Erdrich Literary Fiction Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Modern Poetry Diane Seuss Poetry Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo and Context Collapse by Ryan Ruby My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 Emil Ferris Graphic Novel Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels Janice Hallett Mystery Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Neighbors and Other Stories Diane Oliver Literary Fiction Slapboxing With Jesus by Victor LaValle and Drown by Junot Díaz Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst Literary fiction NW by Zadie Smith The Pairing Casey McQuiston Gourmet Eurotrip Romance The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean and Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour Piglet Lottie Hazell Literary Fiction The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender and Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain Sofia Samatar Science Fiction The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Praiseworthy Alexis Wright Down Under Fever Dream Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran Rakesfall Vajra Chandrasekera Science Fiction This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Reboot Justin Taylor Literary Fiction Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Rejection Tony Tulathimutte NSFW Stories American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden Literary Fiction Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal and We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart The Sequel Jean Hanff Korelitz Publishing World Thriller Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan and Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein Shred Sisters Betsy Lerner Literary Fiction My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite and The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo The Silence of the Choir Mohamed Mbougar Sarr Literary Fiction The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Smoke Kings Jahmal Mayfield Thriller Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Someone Like Us Dinaw Mengestu Literary Fiction Netherland by Joseph O’Neill and Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee Wandering Stars Tommy Orange Historical Family Saga Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Whale Fall Elizabeth O’Connor Historical Fiction Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks and The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella Poignant Autofiction The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad Wild Houses Colin Barrett Literary fiction Close to Home by Michael Magee and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan The Women Kristin Hannah Historical Fiction Absolution by Alice McDermott and The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters You Dreamed of Empires Álvaro Enrigue Hallucinogenic Historical Fiction Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard and Civilizations by Laurent Binet You Should Be So Lucky Cat Sebastian Queer Sports Romance Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes The Achilles Trap Steve Coll Biography The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer and Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks All the Worst Humans Phil Elwood Feel-Bad Memoir Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley All Things Are Too Small Becca Rothfeld Essays Having and Being Had by Eula Biss and Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt The Kids Are Not All Right Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn and My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel Be Ready When the Luck Happens Ina Garten Culinary Memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi and Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang The Black Box Henry Louis Gates Jr. Literary Criticism Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams and The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart The Black Utopians Aaron Robertson Philosophical Family Memoir The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis and The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump The Bluestockings Susannah Gibson Feminist History The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch and The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike Challenger Adam Higginbotham Narrative nonfiction Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World by John Vaillant Chop Fry Watch Learn Michelle T. King Food Biography Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen and Appetite For Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch Circle of Hope Eliza Griswold Religion The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta and Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson Cocktails With George and Martha Philip Gefter Film History Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ by Melissa Maerz Cold Crematorium József Debreczeni WWII Memoir Fateless by Imre Kertész and Night by Elie Wiesel Connie Connie Chung Media Memoir The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page and Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at ‘60 Minutes,’ by Ira Rosen Cue the Sun! Emily Nussbaum TV History When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Do Something Guy Trebay Glitzy Downtown Memoir Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes and M Train by Patti Smith Every Valley Charles King Classical Music History Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer Current Events Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora and One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang Fi Alexandra Fuller Grief Memoir Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene and The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke Health and Safety Emily Witt Sex, Drugs & Techno Memoir The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez and The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen The Hidden Globe Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Economics Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett and How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman I Heard Her Call My Name Lucy Sante Transition Memoir Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney and Just Kids by Patti Smith I Just Keep Talking Nell Irvin Painter Essays Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’ by Emily Raboteau John Lewis David Greenberg Political Biography You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingam That Changed America by Paul Kix and King: A Life by Jonathan Eig Knife Salman Rushdie Survival Memoir Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis Language City Ross Perlin Linguistic Anthropology Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place Names by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor Lovely One Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court Memoir Becoming by Michelle Obama and Up Home: One Girl’s Journey by Ruth J. Simmons Madness Antonia Hylton American History Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates Current Events A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall and The Question of Palestine by Edward Said The New India Rahul Bhatia Current Events I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig and A Burning by Megha Majumdar The New York Game Kevin Baker Sports Summer of ’49 by David Halberstam No One Gets to Fall Apart Sarah LaBrie Family History Memoir The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen and The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Private Revolutions Yuan Yang Current Events Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang and Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson Reagan Max Boot Political Biography G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer The Rebel’s Clinic Adam Shatz Postcolonial Biography Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson and The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud The Return of Great Powers Jim Sciutto Current Events Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick and New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger with Mary K. Brooks Salvage Dionne Brand Literary Criticism The Fraud by Zadie Smith Soldiers and Kings Jason De León Current Events The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe and Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Splinters Leslie Jamison Uncoupling Memoir Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill and Liars by Sarah Manguso Stolen Pride Arlie Russell Hochschild Politics Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel The Swans of Harlem Karen Valby Dance History Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly There’s Always This Year Hanif Abdurraqib Basketball Memoir Shooting Stars by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger Undivided Hahrie Han Religion Circle of Hope: A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold A Walk in the Park Kevin Fedarko Adventure Memoir Wild by Cheryl Strayed When the Clock Broke John Ganz American History Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein The Wide Wide Sea Hampton Sides Biography The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin A Wilder Shore Camille Peri Biography of a Marriage The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall and Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse -
Comment on Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024 - Results in ~sports.motorsports
tomf Link Parenthahaha sorry. I'm leaving it. I'd rather they just put them in a room with a bunch of cats instead of that stupid car thing.hahaha sorry. I'm leaving it. I'd rather they just put them in a room with a bunch of cats instead of that stupid car thing.
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Comment on Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024 - Results in ~sports.motorsports
tomf LinkI like George and feel for him. He’s got that ‘Bad Luck Brian’ thing where he runs a perfect race, barely gets on tv, his teammate gets driver of the day, etc. Fun race, though. The pool I run has...I like George and feel for him. He’s got that ‘Bad Luck Brian’ thing where he runs a perfect race, barely gets on tv, his teammate gets driver of the day, etc.
Fun race, though. The pool I run has another week where we were all horribly wrong.
The whole thing with the cats is awkward and they need to ditch that or make it way smoother.
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Comment on Kendrick Lamar - squabble up (2024) in ~music
tomf (edited )Link Parenti mean, these two overshadow everything. so good in every way.i mean, these two overshadow everything. so good in every way.
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Comment on Kendrick Lamar - squabble up (2024) in ~music
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Comment on Today he is a high school football player. Soon he'll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas. in ~humanities
tomf Link Parentmy guess is that they searched the name, copy and pasted the correct one, forgot the period. it’s tempting to contact them to find out.my guess is that they searched the name, copy and pasted the correct one, forgot the period. it’s tempting to contact them to find out.
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
tomf Link Parentdamn, that's awesome. I bought a cheap cheap one from Aliexpress that had good reviews, but its terrible. I might get one of these. It'd be fun for my tablet. thanks!damn, that's awesome. I bought a cheap cheap one from Aliexpress that had good reviews, but its terrible. I might get one of these. It'd be fun for my tablet. thanks!
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
tomf Linkthis doesn't count, but I need to barf it up somewhere. Last year a Windows 11 update broke my bluetooth. Existing devices were fine, but I couldn't add new ones. I don't use bluetooth for a lot...this doesn't count, but I need to barf it up somewhere.
Last year a Windows 11 update broke my bluetooth. Existing devices were fine, but I couldn't add new ones. I don't use bluetooth for a lot of things, but its nice for headphones.
Anyway, the logs said 'The mutual authentication between the local Bluetooth adapter and a device with Bluetooth adapter address failed.'
For each of the services, you need to change the Log On to Local Service with no password. fixed.
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Comment on Today he is a high school football player. Soon he'll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas. in ~humanities
tomf Link ParentI'd bet money that they pasted that in after misspelling it.I'd bet money that they pasted that in after misspelling it.
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
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Comment on Kendrick Lamar - squabble up (2024) in ~music
tomf Link ParentDot drops a record 6 months and 16 days since Drake’s The Heart pt 6 and on the anniversary of JFKs assassination… and a one minute teaser for something else. I love all of the coincides and stuff...Dot drops a record 6 months and 16 days since Drake’s The Heart pt 6 and on the anniversary of JFKs assassination… and a one minute teaser for something else.
I love all of the coincides and stuff he plays with.
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Comment on F1 closer to approving Andretti bid for expanded grid with Michael Andretti now out of picture in ~sports.motorsports
tomf Linkfor what its worth, Eddie Jordan has been dropping blunt hints about this for a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if he's right. I'd love to see more teams so long as they're competitive....for what its worth, Eddie Jordan has been dropping blunt hints about this for a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if he's right. I'd love to see more teams so long as they're competitive. Everything is tightening up nicely.... just in time for a big change, which they should delay indefinitely.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
tomf Linki watched Clueless tonight for the first time. i had no interest in it until finding out that it’s a retelling of Austen’s Emma. John August and Craig Mazin’s Script Notes podcast was focused on...i watched Clueless tonight for the first time. i had no interest in it until finding out that it’s a retelling of Austen’s Emma. John August and Craig Mazin’s Script Notes podcast was focused on it in their last episode.
Great movie with perfect narration. It’s amazing how Silverstone kind of disappeared since being Batgirl*. It feels like she didn’t get a chance to show a lot of range, but she was good in Killing of the Sacred Deer — she also works far more than i assumed.
I don’t know why, but i feel like i’ve always been a big Silverstone fan, even though i haven’t seen a lot of her work. Maybe she won me over with the dropkick on Sawyer in the Cryin’ video.
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Comment on Wicked, Dune, It, and deceiving the audience about two-parters in ~movies
tomf Link Parentholy smokes! nice. it’s so nice when they do practical effectsholy smokes! nice. it’s so nice when they do practical effects
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Comment on Wicked, Dune, It, and deceiving the audience about two-parters in ~movies
tomf Link ParentEnemy was so good. It didn't get a lot of love in theatres. I think it was around $5m to make and only made around $1m in theatres --- but I would never expect a movie like that to be a...Enemy was so good. It didn't get a lot of love in theatres. I think it was around $5m to make and only made around $1m in theatres --- but I would never expect a movie like that to be a blockbuster.
Surprising that Dune P1 and Blade Runner 2049 were flops.
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Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech
tomf Link Parenttheir image search is one of the best for hard to find source-images.their image search is one of the best for hard to find source-images.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
tomf LinkBreak it to me Gently by Brenda Lee... and a lot of bossanova.Break it to me Gently by Brenda Lee... and a lot of bossanova.
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Comment on Computer Airflow in ~comp
tomf Link Parentok, the ducts are sweet. haha. I don't think I'll go that far into it. I've got everything set pretty good, now, I think. Its quiet and seems to run really cool. I wish I had the Fan Control level...ok, the ducts are sweet. haha. I don't think I'll go that far into it.
I've got everything set pretty good, now, I think. Its quiet and seems to run really cool. I wish I had the Fan Control level of fan control in the bios.
I love and hate this stuff. thanks again! this is great
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Comment on Computer Airflow in ~comp
tomf Link Parentits surprising to me how little impact different configurations really has. Good point about keeping the fans on, too. Thanks for this! It feels like there's so much to know, but then its all...its surprising to me how little impact different configurations really has. Good point about keeping the fans on, too.
Thanks for this! It feels like there's so much to know, but then its all relatively simple.
uncut currency and a book on paper airplanes!