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Tangled Hearts

JoAnn Ross

A poignant and powerful story about a woman torn between two lovers: the husband she believed was dead and the fiance she's about to marry. Alanna Cantrell's world was shattered when her dashing foreign correspondent husband was kidn...

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Published: Aug 2014

Last Night at the Blue Angel

Rebecca Rotert

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of...

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Published: Apr 2015

My Life as a Man

Philip Roth

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...

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Published: May 2010

My Life as a Man

Philip Roth

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...

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Published: May 2010

The Great American Novel

Philip Roth

Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a homerun sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Plot Against America (Movie Tie-i...

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--the chilling story of what happens to one family when an America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series.In an extraordinary feat of narrativ...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

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Published: Dec 2009

When She Was Good

Philip Roth

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness i...

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Published: Nov 2009

Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley

A national bestseller combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, "Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer" (The Washington Post).Ted—a g...

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Published: May 2017

The Guncle

Steven Rowley

An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected fam...

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Published: Apr 2022

Sleeping on Jupiter

Anuradha Roy

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a novel about violence, love, and religion in modern IndiaOn a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named No...

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Published: Sep 2016

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy

National Bestseller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science M...

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Published: May 2018

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggli...

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Published: Mar 2014

Orkney: A Novel

Amy Sackville

Following her wonderful debut, The Still Point, Sackville returns with a strangely beautiful short novel about love and sex and obsession. A literature professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her re...

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Published: Apr 2014

One Out of Two

Daniel Sada

"A literary titan of his time, one of the most innovative novelists in contemporary Latin American letters." -The Washington PostThe most distinctive thing about the Gamal sisters is that they are, essentially, indistinguish...

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Published: Nov 2015

Light Years

James Salter

This exquisite, resonant novel is a brilliant portrait of marriage by a contemporary American master. Even as he lingers over the lustrous surface of Viri and Nedra's marriage, James Salter makes us see the cracks that are spreading t...

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Published: Jan 1995

The Kid

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Published: Apr 2011

Raised from the Ground

Jose Saramago

First published in 1980, the City of Lisbon Prize–winning Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family—poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern prov...

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Published: Nov 2013

In Persuasion Nation

George Saunders

Zany postmodern fiction, like conceptual art, runs the risk of being interesting only because of the originality of its premise. A writer might pen the only existing short-story about a polar bear that gets axed in the head as an adve...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Weekend

Bernhard Schlink

Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they've taken since their youth. But this i...

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Published: Oct 2011

Dear Committee Members

Julie Schumacher

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his ro...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of...

Marian Schwartz

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olg...

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Published: Jan 2019

What Could Be Saved: A Novel

Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

When a mysterious man claims to be her long-missing brother, a woman must confront her family’s closely guarded secrets inthis “delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance” (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bests...

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Published: Sep 2021

Equal Danger

Leonardo Sciascia

District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encoura...

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Published: Oct 2003

The Day of the Owl

Leonardo Sciascia

A dark-suited man is shot dead as he runs for a bus in the piazza of a small town. The investigating officer suspects the mafia, and soon finds himself up against a wall of silence and vested interests. As he uncovers a chain of nasty...

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Published: Sep 2003

A Whole Life: A Novel

Robert Seethaler

International BestsellerWinner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for American Literary Translators Association's Translation Prize in ProseAndreas Egger kno...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

"A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."--Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times - The New York T...

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Published: May 2020

Never Again So Close

Claudia Serrano

Where do the pieces of us end up, the ones that we traded for love?Antonia is ready for her life to start. A young woman from a small town in southern Italy, she wants to pursue her long-held dream of writing a novel. But when she mov...

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Published: Feb 2017

Three Daughters of Eve

Elif Shafak

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a s...

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Published: Jan 2019
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