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  2. No Longer Human - Wikipedia

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    No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.

  3. The Good Soldier - Wikipedia

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    The novel opens with the famous line: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham (the "good soldier" of the book's title) and his wife Leonora, had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.

  4. Super Sad True Love Story - Wikipedia

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    The novel won the Salon Book Award (Fiction, 2010) and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2011). It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2010), New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2010), and Amazon's Best Books of the Month in August 2010.

  5. A Little Life - Wikipedia

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    A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American writer Hanya Yanagihara. [1] Lengthy and tackling difficult subject matter, it garnered critical acclaim, was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards, and became a best seller.

  6. The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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    The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging authors. [1] The following are a few of the individuals who contributed to the list. Authors (fiction)

  7. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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    Telling a story in very few words was dubbed flash fiction in 1992. The six-word limit in particular has spawned the concept of Six-Word Memoirs , [ 8 ] including a collection published in book form in 2008 by Smith Magazine , and two sequels published in 2009.

  8. Klara and the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel by the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published on 2 March 2021.It is a dystopian science fiction story.. Set in the U.S. in an unspecified future, the book is told from the point of view of Klara, a solar-powered AF (Artificial Friend), who is chosen by Josie, a sickly child, to be her companion.

  9. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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    This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as ...

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