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Heart the Lover
A college love that goes wrong, and what it looks like years later. Reddit's complicated-love-story thread kept naming it.
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Worth your time
Books, gadgets and things I'd hand a friend. Each one links to Amazon India and Amazon US.
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11/22/63
King without the horror. A teacher goes back to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination and falls in love on the way.
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Giovanni's Room
A short novel about an American in Paris and the love he can't let himself have. It hurts, on purpose.
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Hyperbole and a Half
True stories in comic panels, so the laugh lands before you finish the sentence. Its chapters on depression are the most accurate thing I've read about how laughter comes back.
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Born a Crime
Noah was born in apartheid South Africa, where his parents' relationship was a crime. You will still laugh on most pages. He reads the audiobook himself.
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My Family and Other Animals
The Durrells swap drizzly England for Corfu in 1935. Short episodes, scorpions at the lunch table, and nobody in danger of anything worse.