Stoner
by John Williams
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“Best book I've read this year is a remarkable novel by John Williams called STONER. It isn't about drugs but it's about everything else... | I read 51 books in 2017 (may squeeze in one or two more before EOY). Here are my favorites, with a little bit of commentary. In no particular order: | It's actually a really great book and I really enjoyed reading it. | It’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”
Source →“Best book I've read this year is a remarkable novel by John Williams called STONER. It isn't about drugs but it's about everything else... | I read 51 books in 2017 (may squeeze in one or two more before EOY). Here are my favorites, with a little bit of commentary. In no particular order: | It's actually a really great book and I really enjoyed reading it. | It’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”
Source →“Best book I've read this year is a remarkable novel by John Williams called STONER. It isn't about drugs but it's about everything else... | I read 51 books in 2017 (may squeeze in one or two more before EOY). Here are my favorites, with a little bit of commentary. In no particular order: | It's actually a really great book and I really enjoyed reading it. | It’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Book Recommendations (43 Books) and Tom Hanks
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirtpoor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of ...
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“Best book I've read this year is a remarkable novel by John Williams called STONER. It isn't about drugs but it's about everything else... | I read 51 books in 2017 (may squeeze in one or two more before EOY). Here are my favorites, with a little bit of commentary. In no particular order: | It's actually a really great book and I really enjoyed reading it. | It’s one of the most fascinating things that you’ve ever come across.”
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