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Long Book Season Approaches

With longer nights and cooler temperatures, autumn marks the beginning of long book season. It’s time to settle in with those epic tomes you just couldn’t sit still long enough to read during the summer. If you haven’t already prepared a stack of autumn reading, take a look at our suggestions for some trophy reads to tackle this long book season.

"My Struggle," by Karl Ove Knausgaard

 

 

 

 

"The Historian," by Elizabeth Kostova

 

 

 

 

"The Lord of the Rings," by J. R. R. Tolkein

 

 

 

 

"The Pillars of the Earth," by Ken Follett

 

 

 

 

"Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace

 

 

 

 

"1Q84," by Haruki Murakami

 

 

 

 

"Middlemarch," by George Eliot

 

 

 

 

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