1. Cleopatra and Frankenstein<\/em> by Coco Mellors<\/h3>\nWhat a firecracker of a book! Cleopatra and Frankenstein<\/em> reminded me of Sally Rooney’s Normal People<\/em>, but in a more vocal, dramatic, energetic way. The characters leaped from the page, so alive, so vibrant\u2014Cleo the young, confused artist, Frank, her older husband and the troupe of minor characters that play important roles in the couple\u2019s lives. It is infinitely pleasurable to read a novel where the author has a strong grasp on the language and is a master sculptor at character sketches. I thought about these characters for a very long time\u2014Cleo\u2019s bottled-up frustrations, Frank\u2019s insecurities, Frank\u2019s sister\u2019s dates, Cleo\u2019s friend\u2019s confidence in their friendship, Frank\u2019s best friend\u2019s guilt. It comforted me seeing how Cleo could predict her husband’s actions, a talent that comes only in the deepest of relationships. At other times I was pulling my hair reading about indecisiveness, hasty decisions, temptations. Or sighing but never looking away from the angry outbursts in several conversations midway through the novel. After I finished the book, this is what I wrote in my notes\u2014Ultimately it left me with a lingering sadness of ‘such is life’. I would be watching out for everything new by Coco Mellors.<\/p>\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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2. Sea of Tranquility<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<\/h3>\nHow to describe an Emily St. John Mandel novel? I was more than hundred pages into the novel and I could make head or tail of where it was going, but I just could not keep this down. The narrative is disjointed, characters almost thrown at the innocent reader but when you ask \u2018who are you\u2019, these characters stare back as if you are an intruder and they\u2019ve been there all along. True to her usual style of dream-like prose, Sea of Tranquility <\/em>arcs over a 500-year timeline from 1912 to 2401. It is ambitious, exploring themes of time, space and time travel and also despairing in the way it explores pandemics that plague humanity, and life outside Earth. It is tender, playfully challenging the intellect of the reader, and hides Easter eggs for the loyal reader (I read Sea of Tranquility<\/em> right after reading her masterpiece must-read Station Eleven<\/em>, and I really must read The Glass Hotel<\/em> as soon as I can and find those Easter eggs in reverse). It is only as we near the end that all the pieces fit together\u2014like a puzzle that did not make sense until then\u2014making you leap in joy at the big world before you, spanning years and planets, defying time and space, breathing, existing, moving through time. This novel leaves the reader with hope and joy, and a sense of marvel that only few novels are able to convey.
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3. Qabar<\/em> by K. R. Meera, translated by Nisha Susan<\/h3>\nQabar <\/em>was the first book I read in 2022 and what a brilliant read it was! Wonderfully translated Nisha Susan, Qabar<\/em> begs to be read in a single sitting. This is the story of a land dispute in small town Kerala. The court case is presided by Bhavana, a district judge and divorcee and the primary caretaker of her son who has ADHD. The land dispute grows into something personal\u2014with roots in Bhavana\u2019s ancestry\u2014and religious. K. R. Meera\u2019s bold and nonchalant prose wrapped in magical realism is a treat. Qabar<\/em> terrified me, but also would not let go of me. Read if you love magic, tombs, snakes, and don\u2019t be alarmed if you find yourself covered in the scent of Edwardian roses.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
4. The School for Good Mothers<\/em> by Jessamine Chan<\/h3>\nI would be lying if I deny that I read this with my heart in my throat. Chan\u2019s dystopian world of mothers (and fathers) being sent to training schools to become \u2018good parents\u2019 is terrifying. When I finished the last page of the book, I was amazed at how much Chan effortlessly packed into this perfect novel\u2014racism, micro aggressions, identity politics, patriarchal systems, the broken child services system, the State’s interference in bringing up children. Chan makes you think about so many things that we take for granted\u2014for example, why are the prototype\/facility children with whom the mothers train with, based on white-people prototypes? Why are Asian prototypes given different aspirations and needs compared to white dolls? This book is going to be on every book list and award list this year. So don\u2019t think twice before grabbing a copy.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAlso Read<\/em><\/strong> : Best books of 2021<\/a><\/p>\nIn the mood for crime<\/h2>\n5. This Might Hurt<\/em> by Stephanie Wrobel<\/h3>\nI gulped down This Might Hurt<\/em> in a single sitting and it is one of my best books of 2022. It follows two sisters with a complicated relationship with one another. One of them goes to a wellness retreat (no internet, or contact with the mainland\/family), and the other sister receives a cryptic email threatening to expose family secrets. I love a book that scares me, makes me want to run away, but keeps me peering from the edges with its irresistible twists. This cult-ish thriller is a perfectly good read for a weekend.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
6. For your own Good<\/em> by Samantha Downing<\/h3>\nFor your own Good<\/em> kept me at the edge of my seat with its egoistic, saviour-like private school teacher and the tampered coffee pods in the teacher\u2019s lounge. I have a thing for school stories, but For your own Good<\/em> gets way more exciting (exciting?) when teachers get murdered in the middle of important functions, cameras spy on your every move, rich kids try to work their way through assignments and deadlines, and toxic teachers make your life miserable. Trust me, you will think twice before you pick a coffee or a mentor after this.<\/p>\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
7. The Paris Apartment<\/em> by Lucy Foley<\/h3>\nI love Lucy Foley mysteries. They have the right bite to pick your brain but aren\u2019t too heavy to leave you exasperated. The Paris Apartment<\/em> is no different. When Jess decides to crash at her journalist brother Ben\u2019s luxury apartment (that he cannot afford), she finds him missing. All the residents of the building feel like suspects. With a vast cast\u2014an alcoholic, a girl obsessed with Ben, a concierge who spies on the residents, escorts, married women with a past, college buddies, suspicious editors\u2014The Paris Apartment<\/em> promises endless pleasure. Why wouldn\u2019t we love a good mystery set in an old Paris building, complete with secret doors, stuffy basements, rich families with secrets, big scoops that tempt journalists, seedy bars and a man gone missing?
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
8. Fake<\/em> by Erica Katz<\/h3>\nI love Erica Katz’s books because they feature intelligent women in work places and non-toxic female friendships. Her debut The Boy\u2019s Club<\/em> deconstructed sex and power in corporate America. Her latest, Fake<\/em>, follows Emma Caan, a forger who specializes in nineteenth century paintings. When she is offered a new dream job at a gallery on the recommendation of oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky, she is thrilled. But big money, glamour, and extravagant lifestyle come at a price. Similar to The Boy\u2019s Club<\/em>, Fake<\/em> unfolds through investigative interviews and flashbacks. I knew what was coming, but the journey was satisfying and the women were badass.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
8. Nine Lives<\/em> by Peter Swanson<\/h3>\nFans of Then There were None<\/em> by Agatha Christie, take note. Nine Lives<\/em> was one of my most anticipated books of 2022. In this crime thriller, nine people get a note in the mail listing the names of nine strangers. Some laugh it off as spam mail until those on the list start getting murdered. I enjoyed how nine completely unrelated targets fit into the bigger crime. I did not see that twist coming and oh my god, it was a good one.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nThe feel-good books<\/h2>\n9. Four Aunties and a Wedding<\/em> by Jesse Q Sutanto<\/h3>\nThe sequel to Dial A for Aunties<\/em> is a laugh riot and the most enjoyable companion on long walks. Meddy Chan is getting married to the love of her life Nathan in the UK. The aunties are all ready to cheer her on her big day and they\u2019ve outsourced the wedding planning\u2026to a mafia family. Read for tea, mafia gang wars, and the most awesome Asian aunties. If you could get hold of an audiobook, I highly recommend the narration by Risa Mei.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
10. Wahala<\/em> by Nikki May<\/h3>\nLove a good book where women have fun! When a toxic new friend Isabel infiltrates the close knit group of three friends\u2014Ronke who always falls for a flakey man, Boo who is unsatisfied in her domestic happiness, and Simi who isn\u2019t trying for a baby (but the husband thinks they are) but battling imposter syndrom\u2014things go topsy turvy. The balanced, financially sound lives of these upper middle class British Nigerian women suddenly become hives of betrayals, secrets, shopping sprees, and broken relationships. Guaranteed fun to keep you glued to the pages.
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Also Read <\/em>: Book Review : Wahala by Nikki May<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Slow burns to burn with<\/h2>\n11. Eleutheria<\/em> by Allegra Hyde<\/h3>\nI read Eleutheria<\/em> on train rides to Boston. It was eerily coincidental because I remembered I didn\u2019t take a book after I locked the door, and ran inside and grabbed one\u2014paperback, not heavy being the only criteria\u2014and ran out. Willa, brought up on conspiracy theories by her doomsday prepper parents in rural Maine moves to Boston after their death. She is torn between her passionate affair with the confident Harvard sociology professor Sylvia Gill and the Freegan movement, a group that scavenges garbage bins to make a statement about the Western consumerist society and its excess wastage. When betrayed by the woman she loves, and inspired by a book \u2018Living the solution\u2019 that she finds in Sylvia\u2019s library, Willa flees to Camp Hope in the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas, to join the author and a group of eco-warriors and their cultish routine. Her unexpected arrival upsets the framework of the cult, including its public launch. I found Eleuteria<\/em> to be a moving slow burn about the way individual and political actions affect not only the climate, but also the emotional despair that is a consequence of climate change. I had a personal connection with the book, in a way that I was hunting for the fictional lavish mansion where Willa and her social media savvy cousins crashed a party for a photo opportunity, or imagining Willa walking on the same pavement as I roamed Beacon hill, or trying to put a face to the characters in Eleutheria<\/em> as people crossed my path on cobbled roads. Eleutheria<\/em>, much like the story it tells, sometimes feels like a hallucination. It is novel about ideas\u2014activism, climate change, capitalism vs consumerism, individualistic actions\u2014told through flawed characters and a love story.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n12. The Appeal <\/em>by Janice Hallet<\/h3>\nThe Appeal<\/em> is for the patient reader. It unfolds entirely through emails, text messages and legal notes. There are two mysteries at hand\u2014a murder and a financial scam (I was more invested in the scam)\u2014narrated by a string of characters (suspects), fundraising campaigns and theatre.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n13. The Verifiers<\/em> by Jane Pek<\/h3>\nI am not kidding when I say The Verifiers made me over think about the data and information we leave on the public database. Claudia works as a spy for clients enrolled in a dating website, but when her client gets murdered, her mystery solving hat gets her into big truths that are simply dangerous for everyone. Sometimes the book feels dense but it remains an excellent look into the digital footprints, vulnerability of data, data mining and manipulation, and persuaded choices in an algorithm-driven world.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
14. The Resting Place by Camilla Sten, translated by Alexandra Fleming<\/h3>\n
This one\u2019s for those who love atmospheric thrillers that make you break into goosebumps. Eleanor witnessed her grandmother\u2019s murder but she suffers from prosopagnosia or face blindness and cannot even recognize familiar faces. She inherits a house in the Swedish woods. So she takes a trip with her boyfriend, aunt and lawyer to find secrets hidden in her grandmother\u2019s past. Bet you cannot forget a book where the protagonist feels like she is being watched in a creepy, old mansion.
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe most amazing books of 2022 for every mood\u2014dystopian training schools, creepy mansions, mafia at the wedding and more <\/a><\/span>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span>\nPin this book list of amazing books of 2022<\/strong>
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Buy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How to describe an Emily St. John Mandel novel? I was more than hundred pages into the novel and I could make head or tail of where it was going, but I just could not keep this down. The narrative is disjointed, characters almost thrown at the innocent reader but when you ask \u2018who are you\u2019, these characters stare back as if you are an intruder and they\u2019ve been there all along. True to her usual style of dream-like prose, Sea of Tranquility <\/em>arcs over a 500-year timeline from 1912 to 2401. It is ambitious, exploring themes of time, space and time travel and also despairing in the way it explores pandemics that plague humanity, and life outside Earth. It is tender, playfully challenging the intellect of the reader, and hides Easter eggs for the loyal reader (I read Sea of Tranquility<\/em> right after reading her masterpiece must-read Station Eleven<\/em>, and I really must read The Glass Hotel<\/em> as soon as I can and find those Easter eggs in reverse). It is only as we near the end that all the pieces fit together\u2014like a puzzle that did not make sense until then\u2014making you leap in joy at the big world before you, spanning years and planets, defying time and space, breathing, existing, moving through time. This novel leaves the reader with hope and joy, and a sense of marvel that only few novels are able to convey. <\/p>\n Qabar <\/em>was the first book I read in 2022 and what a brilliant read it was! Wonderfully translated Nisha Susan, Qabar<\/em> begs to be read in a single sitting. This is the story of a land dispute in small town Kerala. The court case is presided by Bhavana, a district judge and divorcee and the primary caretaker of her son who has ADHD. The land dispute grows into something personal\u2014with roots in Bhavana\u2019s ancestry\u2014and religious. K. R. Meera\u2019s bold and nonchalant prose wrapped in magical realism is a treat. Qabar<\/em> terrified me, but also would not let go of me. Read if you love magic, tombs, snakes, and don\u2019t be alarmed if you find yourself covered in the scent of Edwardian roses. I would be lying if I deny that I read this with my heart in my throat. Chan\u2019s dystopian world of mothers (and fathers) being sent to training schools to become \u2018good parents\u2019 is terrifying. When I finished the last page of the book, I was amazed at how much Chan effortlessly packed into this perfect novel\u2014racism, micro aggressions, identity politics, patriarchal systems, the broken child services system, the State’s interference in bringing up children. Chan makes you think about so many things that we take for granted\u2014for example, why are the prototype\/facility children with whom the mothers train with, based on white-people prototypes? Why are Asian prototypes given different aspirations and needs compared to white dolls? This book is going to be on every book list and award list this year. So don\u2019t think twice before grabbing a copy. I gulped down This Might Hurt<\/em> in a single sitting and it is one of my best books of 2022. It follows two sisters with a complicated relationship with one another. One of them goes to a wellness retreat (no internet, or contact with the mainland\/family), and the other sister receives a cryptic email threatening to expose family secrets. I love a book that scares me, makes me want to run away, but keeps me peering from the edges with its irresistible twists. This cult-ish thriller is a perfectly good read for a weekend. For your own Good<\/em> kept me at the edge of my seat with its egoistic, saviour-like private school teacher and the tampered coffee pods in the teacher\u2019s lounge. I have a thing for school stories, but For your own Good<\/em> gets way more exciting (exciting?) when teachers get murdered in the middle of important functions, cameras spy on your every move, rich kids try to work their way through assignments and deadlines, and toxic teachers make your life miserable. Trust me, you will think twice before you pick a coffee or a mentor after this.<\/p>\n Buy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n I love Lucy Foley mysteries. They have the right bite to pick your brain but aren\u2019t too heavy to leave you exasperated. The Paris Apartment<\/em> is no different. When Jess decides to crash at her journalist brother Ben\u2019s luxury apartment (that he cannot afford), she finds him missing. All the residents of the building feel like suspects. With a vast cast\u2014an alcoholic, a girl obsessed with Ben, a concierge who spies on the residents, escorts, married women with a past, college buddies, suspicious editors\u2014The Paris Apartment<\/em> promises endless pleasure. Why wouldn\u2019t we love a good mystery set in an old Paris building, complete with secret doors, stuffy basements, rich families with secrets, big scoops that tempt journalists, seedy bars and a man gone missing? I love Erica Katz’s books because they feature intelligent women in work places and non-toxic female friendships. Her debut The Boy\u2019s Club<\/em> deconstructed sex and power in corporate America. Her latest, Fake<\/em>, follows Emma Caan, a forger who specializes in nineteenth century paintings. When she is offered a new dream job at a gallery on the recommendation of oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky, she is thrilled. But big money, glamour, and extravagant lifestyle come at a price. Similar to The Boy\u2019s Club<\/em>, Fake<\/em> unfolds through investigative interviews and flashbacks. I knew what was coming, but the journey was satisfying and the women were badass. Fans of Then There were None<\/em> by Agatha Christie, take note. Nine Lives<\/em> was one of my most anticipated books of 2022. In this crime thriller, nine people get a note in the mail listing the names of nine strangers. Some laugh it off as spam mail until those on the list start getting murdered. I enjoyed how nine completely unrelated targets fit into the bigger crime. I did not see that twist coming and oh my god, it was a good one. The sequel to Dial A for Aunties<\/em> is a laugh riot and the most enjoyable companion on long walks. Meddy Chan is getting married to the love of her life Nathan in the UK. The aunties are all ready to cheer her on her big day and they\u2019ve outsourced the wedding planning\u2026to a mafia family. Read for tea, mafia gang wars, and the most awesome Asian aunties. If you could get hold of an audiobook, I highly recommend the narration by Risa Mei. Love a good book where women have fun! When a toxic new friend Isabel infiltrates the close knit group of three friends\u2014Ronke who always falls for a flakey man, Boo who is unsatisfied in her domestic happiness, and Simi who isn\u2019t trying for a baby (but the husband thinks they are) but battling imposter syndrom\u2014things go topsy turvy. The balanced, financially sound lives of these upper middle class British Nigerian women suddenly become hives of betrayals, secrets, shopping sprees, and broken relationships. Guaranteed fun to keep you glued to the pages. Also Read <\/em>: Book Review : Wahala by Nikki May<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I read Eleutheria<\/em> on train rides to Boston. It was eerily coincidental because I remembered I didn\u2019t take a book after I locked the door, and ran inside and grabbed one\u2014paperback, not heavy being the only criteria\u2014and ran out. Willa, brought up on conspiracy theories by her doomsday prepper parents in rural Maine moves to Boston after their death. She is torn between her passionate affair with the confident Harvard sociology professor Sylvia Gill and the Freegan movement, a group that scavenges garbage bins to make a statement about the Western consumerist society and its excess wastage. When betrayed by the woman she loves, and inspired by a book \u2018Living the solution\u2019 that she finds in Sylvia\u2019s library, Willa flees to Camp Hope in the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas, to join the author and a group of eco-warriors and their cultish routine. Her unexpected arrival upsets the framework of the cult, including its public launch. I found Eleuteria<\/em> to be a moving slow burn about the way individual and political actions affect not only the climate, but also the emotional despair that is a consequence of climate change. I had a personal connection with the book, in a way that I was hunting for the fictional lavish mansion where Willa and her social media savvy cousins crashed a party for a photo opportunity, or imagining Willa walking on the same pavement as I roamed Beacon hill, or trying to put a face to the characters in Eleutheria<\/em> as people crossed my path on cobbled roads. Eleutheria<\/em>, much like the story it tells, sometimes feels like a hallucination. It is novel about ideas\u2014activism, climate change, capitalism vs consumerism, individualistic actions\u2014told through flawed characters and a love story. The Appeal<\/em> is for the patient reader. It unfolds entirely through emails, text messages and legal notes. There are two mysteries at hand\u2014a murder and a financial scam (I was more invested in the scam)\u2014narrated by a string of characters (suspects), fundraising campaigns and theatre. I am not kidding when I say The Verifiers made me over think about the data and information we leave on the public database. Claudia works as a spy for clients enrolled in a dating website, but when her client gets murdered, her mystery solving hat gets her into big truths that are simply dangerous for everyone. Sometimes the book feels dense but it remains an excellent look into the digital footprints, vulnerability of data, data mining and manipulation, and persuaded choices in an algorithm-driven world. This one\u2019s for those who love atmospheric thrillers that make you break into goosebumps. Eleanor witnessed her grandmother\u2019s murder but she suffers from prosopagnosia or face blindness and cannot even recognize familiar faces. She inherits a house in the Swedish woods. So she takes a trip with her boyfriend, aunt and lawyer to find secrets hidden in her grandmother\u2019s past. Bet you cannot forget a book where the protagonist feels like she is being watched in a creepy, old mansion. Pin this book list of amazing books of 2022<\/strong> <\/p>\n YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY<\/p>\n![\"Books](\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/746774F4-3018-4908-AD21-3C2118C0159F.jpg\")
<\/p>\n2. Sea of Tranquility<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<\/h3>\n
\nBuy<\/strong> on Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon In<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Sea](\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/sea-of-tranquility.jpg\")
<\/p>\n3. Qabar<\/em> by K. R. Meera, translated by Nisha Susan<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n4. The School for Good Mothers<\/em> by Jessamine Chan<\/h3>\n
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\nAlso Read<\/em><\/strong> : Best books of 2021<\/a><\/p>\nIn the mood for crime<\/h2>\n
5. This Might Hurt<\/em> by Stephanie Wrobel<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n6. For your own Good<\/em> by Samantha Downing<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n7. The Paris Apartment<\/em> by Lucy Foley<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n8. Fake<\/em> by Erica Katz<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n8. Nine Lives<\/em> by Peter Swanson<\/h3>\n
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9. Four Aunties and a Wedding<\/em> by Jesse Q Sutanto<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n10. Wahala<\/em> by Nikki May<\/h3>\n
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11. Eleutheria<\/em> by Allegra Hyde<\/h3>\n
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12. The Appeal <\/em>by Janice Hallet<\/h3>\n
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13. The Verifiers<\/em> by Jane Pek<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n14. The Resting Place by Camilla Sten, translated by Alexandra Fleming<\/h3>\n
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