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A Year in Reading 2025 | Granta

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Granta contributors and friends of the magazine share their year in reading. HARRIET ARMSTRONG A standout book for me this year is Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Palace. The cover struck me as a bit cloying at first: it’s the edition with the blonde woman’s face on it, clearly an adult woman, I felt, and neither Siss nor Unn, the eleven-year-old main characters. But once I’d read a page or two, I couldn’t help finding the cover extremely beautiful, because of the overpowering beauty and mystery of the book. Very different, but with common themes (the end of childhood?) was Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards, which enthralled me for the whole of June. A deeply fun but also very sad and frightening book. I’ve been saying it makes me want to read ‘more thrillers’ but I think really I just want to reread The Shards already. The bigg

A Year in Reading 2025 | Granta Skip to main content A Year in Reading 2025 it exists --> Granta contributors and friends of the magazine share their year in reading. HARRIET ARMSTRONG A standout book for me this year is Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Palace . The cover struck me as a bit cloying at first: it’s the edition with the blonde woman’s face on it, clearly an adult woman, I felt, and neither Siss nor Unn, the eleven-year-old main characters. But once I’d read a page or two, I couldn’t help finding the cover extremely beautiful, because of the overpowering beauty and mystery of the book. Very

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