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An elderly Iowa minister writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, fathers and the ordinary beauty of the world.
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All of our genre starter kits in one collection: a considered way into literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, memoir and more, with the books in the order you should read them.
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Novels where the sentences matter as much as the story.
The past, lived from the inside.
Invented worlds that tell the truth about this one.
Tomorrow's questions, asked tonight.
Questions that keep you reading past midnight.
Hope, delivered with craft.
Books that have been read for a reason.
A life, told with the lights on.
The world, explained so you want to know more.
A thoughtful mind, thinking out loud.
Old questions, still alive.
Practical ideas for a more intentional life.
The books
12 of 35 books.
An elderly Iowa minister writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, fathers and the ordinary beauty of the world.
A young Andalusian shepherd sets out for the Egyptian pyramids in search of treasure, and learns along the way what it means to follow a personal calling.
An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
Two friends build video games together across three decades, and a partnership that is part love story, part creative rivalry.
A young Nigerian woman builds a life in America while her first love stays behind, and years later their paths cross again in Lagos, each changed by what it costs to belong somewhere.
Sentenced to house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel in 1922, Count Rostov finds an entire world within its walls.
Two men are born on the same day, one into Boston banking wealth and the other into poverty in Poland, and their ambitions pull them into a rivalry that spans decades.
Four generations of a Korean family make their lives in Japan across the twentieth century, held together by stubborn love and quiet endurance.
In 1947 a young American searching for her missing cousin is drawn into the story of a woman who spied behind enemy lines in occupied France during the First World War.
In 1327, a Franciscan friar and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a secretive Italian abbey with a labyrinthine library.
A man lives contentedly in an endless house of marble halls, statues and tides, until signs of another presence begin to unsettle his world.
Exiled to a remote island, the witch of Greek myth hones her craft and her will, and crosses paths with gods, monsters and heroes.