SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES by Elizabeth Winkler

For centuries, Christianity had exerted a pacifying influence on the population, encouraging values of meekness and self-sacrifice, and unifying all classes, from the richest congregant to the pious peasant, under a single ideology.

p. 147

SAHA by Cho Nam-joo, translated by Jamie Chang

B&N wish list.

Town, a city-state that is “not quite company or country,” enforces a multi-tiered class system. Laboring under it are the citizenship-less, referred to by the name of the decrepit apartment complex where they live. The Saha Estates are where authorities turn when a doctor is murdered, and where Jin-kyung decides to fight back, for her missing brother, her neighbors and herself.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/13/books/new-paperbacks-nam-joo.html

LAND OF MILK AND HONEY by C Pam Zhang

<<There’s an ornateness to this prose that is missing from much contemporary fiction, which is arguably obsessed with holding the attention of a “typical” reader, one often imagined to have a short attention span and an interest only in the progression of plot.>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/books/review/c-pam-zhang-land-of-milk-and-honey.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/176022/chef-end-world-c-pam-zhang-land-milk-honey

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/05/land-of-milk-and-honey-by-c-pam-zhang-review-an-intriguing-tale-of-post-apocalyptic-cuisine

PEOPLE COLLIDE by Isle McElroy

B&N wishlist because not available yet at library.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/books/people-collide-isle-mcelroy.html

TECHNOFEUDALISM: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM by Yanis Varoufakis

B&N wishlist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-capitalism-ukraine-interview

DIFFICULT MEN: BEHIND THE SCENES OF A CREATIVE REVOLUION by Brett Martin

10th anniversary edition. B&N wishlist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/arts/television/difficult-men.html

REYKJAVIK by Ragnar Jonasson & Katrin Jacobsdottir; and BEYOND THE WALL: A HISTORY OF EAST GERMANY by Katja Hoyer

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/books/review/9-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html

Though, I also saw reviews of Beyond the Wall a week or two ago. Can't remember if it was in The New York Times, The Guardian, and/or The Washington Post.

BLISS & BLUNDER by Victoria Gosling

 B&N wishlist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/18/bliss-blunder-by-victoria-gosling-review-an-arthurian-legend-for-our-times

PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías

B&N wishlist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/11/the-best-recent-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-reviews-roundup

FEVER HOUSE by Keith Rosson

B&N wishlist, since library doesn't list it.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/92951-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-aug-14-2023.html

SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel

Edwin is capable of action but prone to inertia.

p. 5

There are words you encounter all your life without knowing what they mean.
p. 137

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PROPHET by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché

B&N wishlist

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/92916-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-aug-7-2023.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/04/our-book-is-barbie-meets-oppenheimer-why-we-wrote-about-nostalgia-in-an-era-of-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/20/prophet-by-helen-macdonald-and-sin-blache-review-an-enjoyable-homage-to-the-x-files

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/23/prophet-by-helen-macdonald-and-sin-blache-review-fun-high-octane-sci-fi-thriller

A GOOD HOUSE FOR CHILDREN by Kate Collins

 B&N wishlist

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/books/review/a-good-house-for-children-kate-collins-i-will-greet-the-sun-again-khashayar-j-khabushani-all-night-pharmacy-ruth-madievsky.html

BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin

B&N wishlist

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/27/books/new-paperbacks-kenan.html

WHAT REMAINS by Wendy Walker

library reserve

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/books/review/new-books-recommendations.html

AUGUST BLUE by Deborah Levy

...some of us are creators...and the rest of us are performers.

p. 18

Nietzsche rightly believed...that music was the highest art, the essence of being.

p.19

THE NENOQUICH by Henry Bean

B&N reserve

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/92743-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-july-17-2023.html

MY MURDER by Katie Williams

library reserve

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/books/review/katie-williams-my-murder.html

SEVENTEEN by Joe Gibson

B&N wishlist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/joe-gibson-affair-with-teacher-seventeen-book-extract-nfbntw

PET by Catherine Chidgey

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/pet-by-catherine-chidgey-review-sly-psychological-thriller