The Economist Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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A 19th-century murder mystery is stretched out on a postmodern canvas. Set against the ice-capped Southern Alps, this novel depicts the boom and bust of New Zealand’s gold rush. Perfect for readers seeking an escape to a far-flung place.

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“The engine of his songs is empathy,” writes Greil Marcus about Bob Dylan in “Folk Music”. “Blowin’ in the Wind” is exhibit A for this theory https://t.co/aZdZbPC2Iz

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For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies—which everyone surely should—this is an informative and entertaining introduction.

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This is the book that inspired the wild-swimming craze, though do not let that put you off. It is odder and more eccentric than its dreary wet-suit-wearing evangelists may make you think…One to dip into, preferably when lying by a river.

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Slim and elegant, this atmospheric novel evokes the lost world of interwar Italy and its Jewish population.

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A spare, lean thriller, first published in 1970, about the workaday drudgery of the criminal underworld. Higgins was a prosecutor as well as a novelist, and he has an unfailing ear for dialogue.

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Ever wonder what life might be like for an obituary writer or a corrections editor? A newspaper in Rome at the dawn of the internet age is the setting of this enjoyable novel…Each jewel-like story could stand on its own, but they are threaded together brilliantly.

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She rents Limoges porcelain tableware and invites smart friends to celebrate, then urges them to eat with their hands, “Moroccan-style”. This collision of cultures and expectations, as well as the hidden family dramas… make this novel one of Ms Slimani’s most ambitious yet.

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This modernist classic is a riveting summer book, which merits rereading.

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Ottessa Moshfegh’s output is both prolific and eclectic. Her new book, “Lapvona”, is her strangest yet https://t.co/TKirt8wBzB