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BOOKS WE LOVE
This is a selection of books one, many or all of us at VIVA have read and absolutely love. We change this list often as we will read a new book and simply have to have it on our list.
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: good
Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM: "Unputdownable." --Booklist "The best book of 2014." --Suspense Magazine "The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." --The New York Post A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying character ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand w ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
Flames by Robbie Arnott
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his 23-year-old sister, Charlotte"who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. A tale of grief and ...Show more
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Red Sister (#1 Book of the Ancestor) by Mark Lawrence
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Series: Book of the Ancestor Ser.
It's not until you're broken that you find your sharpest edge "I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin" At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones ...Show more
Star of the North by D. B. John
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.'LEE CHILD'Tense and compelling.? James Swallow, Sunday Timesbestselling author of NOMADNorth Korea and the USA are on the brink of warA young American woman disappears witho ...Show more
Killing Commendatore PB by Haruki Murakami
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent p ...Show more
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
"Weird, funny, but also unexpectedly moving." --Buzzfeed 'Laugh out loud funny. I love the way Kevin Wilson writes." --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner Kevin Wilson's best book yet - a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2019! A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she ...Show more
