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Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 · Literary Another quiet, devastating novel where a science-fiction idea is used to look at what a life is worth.
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 · Classics A short, compassionate story about a gentle man with an intellectual disability and a world that is unkind to him.
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 · Science fiction A tender, observant narrator slowly reveals how others treat and value them, in a softer near-future setting.