Kairos
By
Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck
2021 • 336 pages

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55 books

The Economist - Best Books of 2023

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Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
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60 books

National Book Critics Circle Awards

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No One Prayed Over Their Graves
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Stay True
Blackouts
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

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97 books

Read Around the World

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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
Broken April
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Three Apples Fell from the Sky
The Piano Teacher
I Who Have Never Known Men
Son of a Trickster

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Briefly, A Delicious Life
The Details
Kairos
The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Permafrost
Arrangements in Blue
Paradise Rot

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112 books

Genre Fiction

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Flowers for Algernon
The Lottery
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Bell Jar
Frankenstein
The Silent Patient
A Temporary Matter

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28 books

By In About Europe

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Waiting for Godot
The Periodic Table
Chess Story
Lessons in Stoicism
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Small Things Like These
Lolita

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52 books

Challenge Marginalized Gender

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Mummy Eaters
Small Things Like These
Dyke
Breasts and Eggs
The Second Sex
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Space Invaders

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67 books

Genre Literary Fiction

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A Temporary Matter
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Goldfinch
Notes From Underground
The Remains of the Day
Things Fall Apart
Bleak House

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45 books

Period Historical

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Where the Crawdads Sing
To Kill a Mockingbird
All the Light We Cannot See
The Iliad
Orlando

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38 books

Challenge Around The World

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Mummy Eaters
Small Things Like These
Breasts and Eggs
Lolita
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Space Invaders
A Doll's House

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17 books

Challenge Women In Translation 2024

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Tomb of Sand
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Details
The Singularity
What I’d Rather Not Think About
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3 books

By In About Germany

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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8 books

Prize International Booker

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Tomb of Sand
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Details
What I’d Rather Not Think About
Kairos
Not a River
The Vegetarian

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8 books

Booker Prize

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A Dictator Calls
The House on Via Gemito
Mater 2-10
Kairos
Crooked Plow
Not a River

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249 books

Read In English

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Ivan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Chernobyl Prayer
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Adulthood Is a Myth
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning

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33 books

Read In 2024

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Ivan
Paper Houses
The Flanders Panel
Black Water Lilies
Fires
A Memory Called Empire
Wade in the Water: Poems

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Tracers in the Dark
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Blue Sisters

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180 books

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With or Without You
Check & Mate
Cupids Peak
Defy
White Christmas
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Litfic

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Is Mother Dead
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My Death
Thirst for Salt
Heart of Darkness
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

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Histfic

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Heart of Darkness
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Train Dreams
The Mad Women's Ball
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The Sun Also Rises
The Grapes of Wrath