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Ruth Druart Author Of While Paris Slept

From Ruth's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Ruth's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Ruth Druart Why Ruth loves this book

Such an original idea, and something I’ve imagined for myself sometimes. What if no one ever remembered you?

By V. E. Schwab ,

Why should I read it?

25 authors picked The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil Gaiman

A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.

When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she is convinced she's found a loophole-immortality in exchange for her soul. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.

Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Ruth Druart Author Of While Paris Slept

From Ruth's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Ruth's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Ruth Druart Why Ruth loves this book

The description of the character’s internal turmoil had me hooked. I was there with her.

By Colm Toίbίn ,

Why should I read it?

8 authors picked Brooklyn as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is…


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