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Matrix: A Novel

Lauren Groff

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Y...

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Published: Sep 2022

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (Vintage...

Walter Mosley

Millions of men and (no doubt many) women have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts—"do it" on television and computer screens in every combination of partners and positions i...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack sto...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And ...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)

Toni Morrison

She reveals herself...as a writer of considerable power and tenderness, someone who can cast back to the living, bleeding heart of childhood and capture it on paper....With the flaws and virtues tallied, I found myself still in favor ...

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Published: Apr 2000

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, ecce...

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Published: Apr 2004

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction who scared the world silent. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind -- in the deadly se...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2002

Saturday

Ian McEwan

Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man--a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. Wha...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2005

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. 'IIt's amazing how excellent much of it is,' Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. 'I will say now,' John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, 'Tender...

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Published: Jul 1995

No Time to Wave Goodbye

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Twenty-two years have passed since Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted. By some miracle he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives.Now, in this sequel to Mitchard's belov...

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Published: May 2010

Jazz

Toni Morrison

The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfu...

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Published: Jun 2004

Missing Pieces

Heather Gudenkauf

A woman uncovers earth-shattering secrets about her husband's family in this chilling page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely de...

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Published: Jun 2016

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction. Longlisted...

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Published: Aug 2016

Milkrun

Sarah Mlynowski

A delighful and hilarious foray into the world of dating follows lively Jackie Norris as she searches for the man of her dreams amidst Boston's Singles Scene, where she learns to deal with life's various challenges and discovers what ...

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Published: Dec 2001

Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary ...

Jacqueline Susann

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture ClassicThe perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design • introduction by Simon Doonan • never-before-seen archival mate...

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Published: Jul 2016

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't sho...

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Published: Apr 2012

Leave the World Behind: A Novel

Rumaan Alam

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR*Elle*Esquire*Kirkus*Library Journal*The Chicago Publi...

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Published: Nov 2021

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of 2018A New York Times Notable Book and Times Critics' Top Books of 2018The New York Times bestseller.From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts ...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Little Girls

Elizabeth Bowen

In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings th...

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Published: Jul 2004

Sweetbitter (Vintage Contemporaries)

Stephanie Danler

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER  *  A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaura...

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Published: Apr 2017

A Piece of the World Low Price CD: A ...

Christina Baker Kline

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World."La...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2018

Machines Like Me: A Novel

Ian McEwan

From Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act "Moving. . . . Masterly . . . provocative." —The New York Times Book Review"A feat of literary sorcery.&...

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Published: Mar 2020

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will b...

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Published: Oct 2011

Zone One

Colson Whitehead

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown's Fort Wonton have succ...

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Published: Jul 2012

Father of the Rain

Lily King

Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors' Choice, Lily King's masterful third novel received glowing critical praise upon its initial publication and is poised to make an even bigger splash in pape...

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Published: May 2011

The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara

A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable BookIt is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to ...

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Published: May 2014

The Narrow Corner

W. Somerset Maugham

Three men voyaging together in a small vessel--an exiled doctor, a disreputable sea captain, and a young man fleeing from justice--are driven to take shelter on a small island in the Malay Archipelago. Their lives are soon shattered b...

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Published: Dec 2009

We the Animals

Justin Torres

We the Animals has met with extraordinary acclaim, from writers like Michael Cunningham, Paul Harding, Marilynne Robinson, Dorothy Allison, and Tayari Jones, and publications like Forbes, the New York Times, People, and more. A novel ...

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Published: Sep 2012

The Sympathizer: A Novel

Viet Thanh Nguyen

One of 2015's most highly acclaimed debuts, The Sympathizer is a Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese...

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Published: Apr 2016

Great Circle: A novel

Maggie Shipstead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Pr...

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Published: Apr 2022
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