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Kazuo Ishiguro Author Read Alikes May 2021
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If you enjoy reading books by Kazuo Ishiguro, try these authors whose titles are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Overdrive and Libby apps) and Hoopla
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A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
In 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry’s youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
Scheduled release date: May 11, 2021 - place holds on Overdrive/ Libby now.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
An out-of-time space traveler who only aged months while decades passed back home navigates the loss of everyone she knew before finding new purpose caring for a mysterious broken child who communicates through a wooden flute.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Trafik
by Rikki Ducornet
A buoyant voyage through outer space and inner longing, transposing human experiences of passion, loss, and identity into a post-Earth universe.
Available on Hoopla.
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The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisin
This first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Set My Heart to Five
by Simon Stephenson
A first novel by a former Pixar screenwriter follows the emotional awakening of a human-like bot, a small-town dentist who, in the wake of an inexplicable response to a classic movie, endeavors to forge real connections.
Available on Hoopla.
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Waste Tide
by Qiufan Chen
An exploited lowest-caste factory worker, her ruthless employer, an American corporate representative and his heritage-seeking translator intersect when a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on a major Chinese technological site, triggering a war between the classes.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Inspection
by Josh Malerman
A genius boy and a girl raised unaware of gender in remote, separate schools far from the rest of the world encounter each other's differences for the first time while making unsettling discoveries about their schools' enigmatic founder.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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A Luminous Republic
by Andrés Barba
A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Plum Rains
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
In a near-future Tokyo transformed by a population crisis and AI-enhanced medicine, a Filipina nurse worries she will lose her job to an eerily perceptive robot that draws out the secrets of their moody centenarian employer.
Available on Hoopla.
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Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
A collection of stories explores revelatory ideas and second chances in such tales as "In the Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," "Exhalation," and "The Lifecycle of Software Objects."
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Machines Like Me : and People Like You
by Ian McEwan
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Last Day
by Domenica Ruta
The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people, including a diverse crew of astronauts in space, converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday, in a thought-provoking first novel by the author of the memoir With or Without You.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Only Story
by Julian Barnes
A man who ran away as a teen university student with a married woman more than twice his age reflects on how they fell in love, how he freed her from a sterile marriage and how their relationship fell apart as she succumbed to depression.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
Assigned to the Unit to submit to testing and eventual organ donation and death, Dorrit Weger accepts her fate as a single woman over the age of fifty until she meets a man inside the Unit and falls in love.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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And Again
by Jessica Chiarella
When four terminally ill patients get brand-new, genetically altered bodies that are exact copies of their former selves, giving them each a fresh start at life, they discover that their new reality is far from perfect as they must re-enter their former lives and relationships and try to regain the physical identities that had made them who they once were.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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In the Cafe of Lost Youth
by Patrick Modiano
Who was Louki? Did anyone really know? She made her mark on all of us in different ways. We all remember her, some of us more than others, but did any of us truly know her? Can anyone honestly say they know another person? In the Cafe of Lost Youth centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone's attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, we contemplate Louki's character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his hypnotic and deeply moving art.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
A new work by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace is set in a future world that has been devastated by a series of ecological and scientific disasters.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she enrolls in a semiotics course and falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Morten, a time which is complicated by the resurfacing of man who is obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
Astonished to see the mother who abandoned him in childhood throwing rocks at a presidential candidate, a bored college professor struggles to reconcile the radical media depictions of his mother with his small-town memories and decides to draw her out by penning a tell-all biography.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
After losing her parents, a young college graduate in New York City spends a year alienating the world under the influence of a crazy combination of drugs.
Waitlist on Overdrive/ Libby- place holds there now.
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