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The Unnamed

Joshua Ferris

Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts arou...

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Published: Sep 2010

Avenue of Mysteries

John Irving

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the pa...

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Published: Nov 2015

Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is...

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Published: Jul 2010

House of Meetings

Martin Amis

With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism agai...

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Published: Jan 2008

His Bloody Project: Documents Relatin...

Graeme Burnet

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTLOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY NEWSWEEK, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH, AND THE SUNDAY TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"THOUGHT PROVOKING FICTION"―THE NEW...

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Published: Sep 2017

In Sunlight and in Shadow

Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns ho...

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Published: Oct 2012

An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together,...

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Published: Feb 2018

Some Luck

Jane Smiley

National Book Award Nominee A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon ha...

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Published: Jul 2015

Birds of Paradise

Diana Abu-Jaber

"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table."—Ron Charles, Washington PostAt thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some...

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Published: May 2012

Moonglow Low Price CD: A Novel

Michael Chabon

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential advent...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Last Thing He Wanted

Joan Didion

In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Co...

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Published: Sep 1997

Zoo Station

David Downing

'The clever denouement will have readers clamoring for a sequel.'-BookPage'Zoo Station is a beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending as John Russell learns the personal faces of good and evil. An unforg...

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Published: May 2008

The Invisible Circus

Jennifer Egan

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her s...

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Published: Dec 2012

The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George

"There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis ...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau

The relationship of Will Howland with Margaret Carmichael, his black housekeeper and mistress, is exposed when their granddaughter marries a segregationist with political ambitions, in a new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...

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Published: Nov 2003

Sing Them Home

Stephanie Kallos

After the loss of their mother, the Jones children--Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie--have grown into adulthood under the shadow of unresolved grief and become encased in town myth. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of An...

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Published: Jan 2009

Mischling

Affinity Konar

A New York Times Notable BookAn Amazon Best Book of the YearA Barnes & Noble Discover PickAn Indie Next PickA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Flavorwire Best Book of the YearAn Elle Best Book of the Year"One of the most ...

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Published: Jun 2017

Immigrant, Montana

Amitava Kumar

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARCarrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kaila...

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Published: Jun 2019

Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers: A...

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith's wildly popular 44 Scotland Street series chronicles life in a corner of Edinburgh brimming with wit and humor.Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble ...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A ...

Alexander McCall Smith

The heartwarming and hilarious new installment in the Corduroy Mansions series presents the further adventures of Alexander McCall Smith's newest beloved character: the Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay. In the elegantly crumbling ma...

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Published: May 2012

The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, "Black" and "White," as the two men are known, beg...

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Published: Oct 2006

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Blazing...Visceral" (Los Angeles Times) · "Exceptional" (Newsweek) ·"Bold...Heartfelt" (New York Times Book Review) ·"Thought-provoking and thrilling&...

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Published: May 2022

Someone: A Novel

Alice McDermott

A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award–winning authorAn ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an ord...

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Published: Sep 2013

Slade House

David Mitchell

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and�...

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Published: Jun 2016

The View from Castle Rock (unabridged...

Alice Munro

Alice Munro, one of the most acclaimed short-story writers of her generation, was born Alice Laidlaw, and recently began to research her Laidlaw ancestors from Scotland. The scraps of history and anecdote delighted her--particularly h...

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Published: Nov 2006

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Year...

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Ha...

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Published: Aug 2014

A House for Mr. Biswas

V. S. Naipaul

Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family. Reprint...

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Published: Mar 2001

We Cast a Shadow: A Novel

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

"An incisive and necessary" (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father's obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him whiteLonglisted for the Center for Fiction ...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Girls of August

Anne Rivers Siddons

Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every su...

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Published: Jul 2015

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A N...

Dominic Smith

A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painterThis is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing an...

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Published: Apr 2016
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