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Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel | Jonathan Lethem

For my current state, I loved the tagged book. A sort of detective novel worth a protagonist suffering from Tourettes. The way he describes his ticks, and people's reactions to them was exactly my type of humour.

For my home state of MN, I would choose Fitzgerald's short story "The Ice Palace".

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Billypar I love this novel- Lionel Essrog should join Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew, and Hercule Poirot as one of the all-time great literary detectives. 7y

ofbooksandme @Liz_M It actually sounds very good. I'll check it out! 7y

Liz_M @ofbooksandme I hope it is your type of humour also! 7y

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Maken | Gun-Britt Sundström

Wow, what a difficult question! I‘m from Sweden, but I‘ve only read 237 books in Swedish (vs 601 in English and, 120 in Norwegian, 148 in French, 85 in Russian, etc.), and not all of those ARE actually Swedish, but I do remember being very impressed by this book. It‘s sad that I‘m the first person to post about it on Litsy. #whereintheuniverse

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Scurvygirl Rhode Island...hmmm I haven‘t read a lot that I would call a favorite from Rhode Island. I did grow up in Massachusetts and NOS4A2 has plenty of parts that take place in Haverhill. 7y

IamIamIam As a New Yorker, specifically a Long Islander, I have to go with The Great Gatsby! I also claim New York City as home so this is another strangely fabulous about NYC.

The Golems of Gotham: A Novel

BarbaraBB The blurb is in Swedish unfortunately. Has it been translated? 7y

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Cathythoughts At the moment , this book. But that could change š‘¨š¸»

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

tricours @BarbaraBB it exists in German (Die Andere Hälfte), but that seems to be it! 7y

BarbaraBB @tricours Ah too bad. I learned German in high school but that was a long time ago! 7y

ofbooksandme @IamIamIam I've read Gatsby, but I'll check Golems of Gotham because with that name, it deserves it 7y

ofbooksandme @Cathythoughts That sounds great tbh 7y

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The Discovery of Heaven | Harry Mulisch

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One of my favourite Dutch books is this one. It is a chunkster that tells about all important things that happened in the 20th century, combined with the friendship between two men and a woman and a bit of religion. Almost too much, but for me it worked fine.
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PSreads73 Possibly my favorite is Ready Player One. Author is from OH but I‘m from WV. I‘ll have to look into some WV authors. 7y

Liz_M Your favorite? Well Eline Vere was very good so I guess I should read this sooner than later! 7y

BarbaraBB @Liz_M You must, it‘s on the list š€. But I forgot about Eline Vere when I posted this and I have to admit that Eline is even better! 7y

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ofbooksandme @PSreads73 Ready Player One has been on my TBR for sooo long! 7y

ofbooksandme @BarbaraBB I have a map where I paint if I've read one book from that country and just thinking about it I don't think I've read a Dutch book. I'll be there in a few months on vacation so that might be a good way to get in the mood! 7y

PSreads73 @ofbooksandme I might read it again before I watch the movie. Movie releases March 29th. If it‘s even half as good as the book it will be worth watching. 7y

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Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges

My favorite book from Argentina is "Ficciones" (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best writers of the 20th century in the world. Short stories, magical, mystical, about the universe, about literature, fantasy and fantastic.
Would recommend it to anyone who loves literature. (It's still baffling that he never got a Nobel)

#Whereintheuniverse Which is yours? Don't forget to tag me!

BarbaraBB Great post! Ficciones is on my TBR! 7y

ofbooksandme @BarbaraBB it's like something from another planet, you'll love it 7y

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