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  “Glyph”  by Percival Everett: This is a book by Percival Everett which I hadn’t so much fun with as with his other books. It is a satire o...

“Erasure”  by Percival Everett: In this truly brilliant, deeply thought-provoking novel, first published in 2001, Everett created a cutting,...

  “Assumption” by Percival Everett: As the title suggests rather obviously, Assumption is about making assumptions in criminal investigat...

  “Percival Everett by Virgil Russell”  by Percival Everett: This is my fifth book by Percival Everett and all his other books so far I hav...

  “So Much Blue”  by Percival Everett: “A painting has many surfaces.” And so has this novel which is by turns shocking, funny and touching...

  “I Am Not Sidney Poitier” by Percival Everett: Again, a great novel from Percival Everett, as irresistible and hard to put down as The Tr...

  “Wounded” by Percival Everett: John Hunt, the laconic, black protagonist of this novel is a horse trainer and lives on a farm in Wyoming...

“The Trees” by Percival Everett : First things first: This is a very funny novel. And it’s  driving theme is  American racism. The Trees is...

  “Excellent Women” by Barbara Pym: Barbara Pym was an English writer who died in 1980 and was best known for her social comedies  Excelle...

“A Glass of Blessings”  by Barbara Pym: Barbara Pym was an English writer who died in 1980 and was best known for her social comedies  Excel...

“Burntcoat”  by Sarah Hall: This is not your run-of-the-mill dystopian pandemic novel although there is a virus and all and everything is br...

“Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” by Susanna Clarke: I have been lured into reading this book by the author’s latest one, Piranesi , whi...

  “Piranesi“ by Susanna Clarke: A delightful genre bending novel, a surprising dreamlike world full of suspense, mystery, murder and bookis...

  “Companion Piece” by Ali Smith: Two years after her famous Seasonal Quartet’s concluding volume Summer ,   recently published Companion ...