Great loss. It's hard to name one's favorite book *ever* but people do ask. I usually waver between saying The Dispossessed or the Left Hand of Darkness—both hers. Ursula K. LeGuin was a great American novelist with such great range and imagination. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html …
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Replying to @zeynep
I may be in the minority, but I was so moved by The Word for World is Forest. I know it's not considered one of her best, but I deeply felt the theme of having to alter or give up a crucial part of your identity in order to survive and go on after trauma.
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I adore that book, too. It's a very different book, but still... Most everything she did was potent, some with sharper elbows than others.
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