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10 best books like Curiosity (Joan Thomas): Washington Black, The Second Sleep, Paris by the Book, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, The Break, A Complicated Kindness, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Moon of the Crusted Snow, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles

Washington Black
AuthorEsi Edugyan
ISBN0525521429
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.

When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch,"...
The Second Sleep
AuthorRobert Harris
All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones –...
Paris by the Book
AuthorLiam Callanan
ISBN1101986271
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.

Once a week, I chase men who are not...
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
AuthorMitchell Zuckoff
ISBN1455530093
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/

Know what today is? Iowa Caucus Day. I bet there’s nothing Hillary Clinton would like more than a walk down memory lane back to September 11, 2012 . . .



Just kidding. I don’t talk politics on social media....
The Break
AuthorKatherena Vermette
ISBN1487001118
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.

In...
A Complicated Kindness
AuthorMiriam Toews
ISBN1582433224
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
AuthorLaura Cumming
ISBN1501198718
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...
Moon of the Crusted Snow
AuthorWaubgeshig Rice
ISBN1770414002
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
AuthorAnne Lamott
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything

Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life

Readers of all ages have followed...
Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles
AuthorTony Macaulay
ISBN0007449232
It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine – or bombs and mortar – he will deliver…


Paperboy lives...
An Audience of Chairs
AuthorJoan Clark
ISBN0676976565
Like beauty, madness altered perception, but instead of offering illusion, it offered delusion. Moranna leaned the tricks madness played on perception the hard way as experience showed her how persuasively madness distorted reality. Experience also showed her that if she hung on long enough, the...
Orfeo
AuthorRichard Powers
ISBN0393349845
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.

In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt...
Starlight
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN0771070845
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...
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