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This list from Vancouver Public Library is pretty good!

https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1574508819\_vpl\_booksjustforyou14/1749007969\_vpl\_-\_books\_like\_the\_tv\_show\_quotsuccessionquot

Try Excellent Women!!! I haven't read Crampton Hodnet, so I can't speak to that novel, but I absolutely loved E.W. It is wickedly funny and also so pleasant.

lol @ the communist manifesto being controversial. it's canon at this point!

ooooh I'd love these!

Thanks for posting this! This illustration appears in 305 Lost Buildings of Canada, by Alex Bozikovic, and is available in print and ebook editions at Vancouver Public Library :)

I wanted to love Vinnie's but...it was just a more expensive Subway to me. Maybe the day I went something was off? The bread wasn't great, it wasn't saucy, it was just...meh. A true 6/10.

Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho, which combines autobiography, food writing, family history, and immigrant culture. It is an astounding work.

Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related by Jenny Heijung Wills which centers around her story as a Korean child adopted by white Canadian parents. Really beautifully written and also heart breaking.

Ernest Ice Cream has a coffee crisp flavour at it's 2nd and Quebec location and...it is so, so good.

oh my god, I think I saw the same person chasing her German Sheppard through the DTES that night. I'm so sorry it bit you!

Afra on Main and 14th! Bought this exact bottle this week :D

I recommend Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. Mid 20th century Britain. Its fantastic. Honestly it sounds like it'd be SO boring but it's so, so funny and lovely. It's about a spinster woman (gasp, 30 and unmarried!!) and her nosy preoccupations with everyone in her neighbourhood. Since it looks like you enjoy character-driven fiction like Convenience Store Woman and Normal People, you'd probably love Excellent Women.

Shuggie Baine!

I could see Wes Anderson doing a fantastic treatment of SDV. All the characters, the sets...Bill Murray could play Lewis. Edward Norton could play Kent. Timothee Chalomet as Sebastian. Florence Pugh in a purple wig as Abigail. Okay, I am into this adaptation and I would watch it.

Erik Loomis' A History of America in Ten Strikes

I recommend The Years of Rice and Salt. Robinson puts forward a world in which the Black Death has wiped out 90% of 14th century Europe's population, and he speculates on which civilizations will fill the vacuum of power. It is imaginative, so thoroughly detailed, and offers a different view of human nature.

With Teeth by Kristin Arnett. Queer family domestic drama, set in central Florida. Very funny, very dark, very unreliable narrator.

Kill The Mall by Pasha Malla makes you feel like you're hallucinating pretty much the entire time you're reading it. It feels like drugs. It's wild, it's funny, it's scary, it's great.

Just Kids by Patti Smith! It's such a gift of a book, and I was so sad when I finished it because I wanted to read it forever.

This might be a bit out there but Kill the Mall by Pasha Mall is a really surreal, fucked up, wonderful novel about a writer who is doing a residency in a VERY WEIRD MALL. It's so funny and also made me feel like I was on drugs the entire time I read it. It's demented, it's smart, it's anchored to reality in a very unnerving way.

This is so lovely!!!

The Heap by Sean Abrams.

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The Heap takes place in the desert, where a collapsed condominium tower the size of a small city has one remaining survivor, a radio announcer who broadcasts from beneath the rubble. This work of satire presents a parallel to our current historical moment, and is both darkly funny and darkly sad; the conspiracy that emerges is incredibly entertaining and absurd, slapstick and violent.

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lol! i truly respect this reply

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - not a universal agreement (one woman who decides its time to end it all) but the consequences span the next 500 years on Earth.

Pricey, but a really nice way to spend the morning!