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The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
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~20 min read · From 2020 · About a month ago, we published a list of 50 of the best contemporary novels over 500 pages, for those of you who suddenly have a lot of extra time on your hands. But for those of us who suddenly h…
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The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Over 500 Pages
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~12 min read · From 2020 · Personally, I find solace in long novels. The good ones always seem to create space for the reader: space to sink and settle, and time to really learn what you’re dealing with, both in terms …
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Fast Company
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram. They may be the future
Fast Company
3 min read · From 2019 · Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way.
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Nautilus Magazine
Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
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Guardian Books
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Guardian Books
20+ min read · From 2019 · Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
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Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · From 2020 · Scottish novelists from William McIlvanney to Ian Rankin and Denise Mina deliver all the gut-punch thrills of crime without forgetting its human cost
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Clive Thompson
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2021-09-12 · Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, novels were regarded as the video games or TikTok of their age — shallow, addictive, and dangerous
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Guardian Books
Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels
Guardian Books
3 min read · From 2020 · Paperback fiction sales rose by 35% last week, with a notable interest in challenging classics
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Are Video Games Like Novels?
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2 min read · Mar 5th · Video games as interactive storytelling? Maybe not at first glance, but as Eric Hayot explains, the interplay between game and narrative is real.
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