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Yuletide recs (and secret and stealthy book recs bonus)
Ten Yuletide recs, with tl;dr fangirly useful canon information for each because you need to read these books:
( recs for The Dalemark Quartet (Diana Wynne Jones), The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Scott Lynch), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith), Malay literature, Matilda (Roald Dahl), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), Sunshine (2007 movie) )