Literary

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Miss Invisible

Laura Jensen Walker

Freddie Heinz is a single, 29-year-old plus-size wedding cake baker/decorator who feels invisible most of the time due to her size and her still-single status. Fans of Jennifer Weiner's novels will enjoy this tale about a woman who f...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

About the 'neon fuzz': a note on the book jacket from designer Jason Booher...'When you read Harkaway's novel, a gigantic sense of weirdness and cool and doom surround the characters. To capture all that plus the absurd humor that per...

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Published: Aug 2009

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

Set against the backdrop of the British Empire, an intriguing novel by the author of Flaubert's Parrot chronicles the lives of two boys--George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, growing up in Edinburgh--one who is forgotten by...

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Published: Jan 2007

Landing

Emma Donoghue

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by pl...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...

Rachel Joyce

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives...

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Published: Mar 2013

Menage'A Way

Victor L. Martin

Menage Unique Legend's life, though it continues to be filled with material possessions and easy sex, spirals steadily out of control in this action-packed, page-turning sequel to A Hood Legend. Through it all, he pretends to be in co...

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Published: Nov 2004

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In th...

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Published: Aug 2009

Saving the World

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of five works of fiction, among them In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, books for children, essays, and poetry. Saving the World is an unfocused attempt to make a st...

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Published: Apr 2007

Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthr...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Silver Boat

Luanne Rice

From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that "will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister" (Marie Claire)In The Silver Boat, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice has wr...

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Published: May 2012

Grange House

Sarah Blake

Much like every other summer, Maisie Thomas spends the summer of 1896 at the Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange, but this stay proves to be very different after local fisherman find two drowne...

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Published: Jun 2001

The End of the Affair (Classics Delux...

Graham Greene

Graham Greene’s 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies,...

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Published: Sep 2004

Cavedweller

Dorothy Allison

A lush, epic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Bastard Out of Carolina. When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving eve...

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Published: May 1999

The Ice Storm

Rick Moody

The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two fam...

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Published: Apr 2002

The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by TheNew York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial...

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Published: Mar 2016

Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close

Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love—all while suffering through an endless round of weddings an...

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Published: May 2012

The Maytrees

Annie Dillard

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of coll...

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Published: Jun 2008

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Ste...

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Published: Jun 1997

Stern Men

Elizabeth Gilbert

The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writer In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new e...

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Published: Mar 2009

Admission

Jean Hanff Korelitz

"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and ...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novelthat spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to...

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Published: Mar 2018

House of Daughters

Sarah-Kate Lynch

Family rivalries, long-ago love affairs, and forgotten scandals blend in this sparkling novel set in the Champagne province of France With effervescent wit and clear-eyed insight, Sarah-Kate Lynch explores the rivalries and bonds of s...

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Published: Aug 2008

In Falling Snow

Mary-Rose MacColl

A bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart-wrenching novel of World War I Iris Crane's tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tra...

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Published: Aug 2013

Anagrams

Lorrie Moore

A cycle of five stories which overlap, concerning a woman named Benna and a man named Gerard, Benna's daughter Georgianna and Benna's best friend Eleanor; these stories explore themes of loneliness, connection, alienation, love and co...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Dutch House: A Novel

Ann Patchett

New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 Named one o...

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Published: Jan 2021

The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

Junichiro Tanizaki

These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with ...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Story of Forgetting

Stefan Merrill Block

In Stefan Merrill Block's extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's fa...

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Published: Apr 2009

Symbiont (Parasitology)

Mira Grant

THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES.THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's populatio...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Other

David Guterson

From the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars, a coming-of-age novel that presents two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life and the compromises that come with fulfillment.John William Barry and...

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Published: Jun 2009

The Key

Kathryn Hughes

A hidden note. A lost love. A second chance...'A wonderful, enthralling story; one that I didn't want to end' Lesley Pearse on The Key 'A heartbreakingly powerful read'The Sun on The KeyFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Letter, Ka...

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Published: Dec 2018
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