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Katy Hays

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Katy Hays is the author of The Cloisters, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, as well as Read With Jenna Pick. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor, teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her PhD in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her academic writing has been published by Ashgate, an imprint of Routledge.

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Average rating: 3.41 · 59,898 ratings · 8,038 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cloisters 3.41 avg rating — 59,809 ratings — published 2022 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Resentment: A Comedy

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Katy Hays rated a book it was amazing The Art of Exile (Academy of Muses, #1) by Andrea Max (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Immaculate in every conceivable way.
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Delightful. Unhinged. Tender. Chaotic. We are so lucky to have Anna Dorn.
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Katy Hays rated a book it was amazing Vantage Point by Sara Sligar (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Do you ever read a book and love it so much you actually struggle to articulate your praise? Like the book is so good it leaves you a little tongue tied? That's me with Vantage Point. I don't know how it's possible for a novel to approach so many com ...more
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“But that was the hardest thing about death: the unrelenting march of time forward, away from the person you’ve lost.”
― Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.

[Ann Stilwell]”
― Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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“What if our whole life—how we live and die—has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”
― Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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What book would you like to read for our December 2023 Group Read? The theme is Wisdom.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Science Nonfiction

16 votes 22.5%

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Historical Fiction

12 votes 16.9%

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Nonfiction

11 votes 15.5%

The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Fiction, Mystery

11 votes 15.5%

Wise Children by Angela Carter
Fiction, Magical Realism

7 votes 9.9%

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Contemporary, Spirituality

7 votes 9.9%

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Biography

4 votes 5.6%

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
Contemporary

3 votes 4.2%

71 total votes

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