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Kate Atkinson
Born
in York, England, The United Kingdom
December 20, 1951
Website
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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published
2013
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132 editions
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Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
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published
2004
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148 editions
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
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published
2015
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89 editions
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When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
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published
2008
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96 editions
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Transcription
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published
2018
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62 editions
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One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)
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published
2006
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123 editions
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Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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published
2010
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79 editions
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
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published
1995
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4 editions
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Shrines of Gaiety
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published
2022
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Big Sky (Jackson Brodie, #5)
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published
2019
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2 editions
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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
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Polls
This month, we are reading from the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 list. The 100-book-list has been narrowed down to the list below for voting.
Since these books are not from the same genres, I have included genre as well as a link to the New York Times reviews.
Voting will be from 2/2/14 to 2/15/14, or until all 9 votes are cast. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter.
Since these books are not from the same genres, I have included genre as well as a link to the New York Times reviews.
Voting will be from 2/2/14 to 2/15/14, or until all 9 votes are cast. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
This book also received the 2013
Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction.
This book is also on the New York Times shortlist:
10 best books of 2013
See Life After Life: New York Times Review
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
(Starring a now grown Danny from The Shinning)
This book also received the 2013
Goodreads Choice Award for Horror
See Doctor Sleep: New York Times Review
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
by Andrew Sean Greer
Science Fiction / Historical Fiction
See The Impossible Lives of
Greta Wells: New York Times Review
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