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1. "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter
In this beautifully intricate story, go back and forth from the pastel, rocky shores of the Italian coast to glittering Hollywood while working through an interwoven narrative 50 years in the making. A young innkeeper meets a dying actress in 1962, and the consequential connection of the two intersects more lives than they know in this romantic, spellbinding and charmingly funny novel.