Literary

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The Red Book

Deborah Copaken Kogan

The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan's wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion. Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until t...

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Published: Feb 2013

Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner has written an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution -- a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. The firs...

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Published: Jun 2009

The Widow's War

Mary Mackey

The "superb" New York Times bestselling author delivers a sweeping epic set during the early days of the Civil War.In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant after her fiance, abolitionist doctor William Saylor, disa...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Lost Vintage: A Novel

Ann Mah

"If you enjoyed Sarah's Key and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you."   -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who retu...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Association of Small Bombs

Karan Mahajan

National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Editors’ ChoiceA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2016Named a Best Book of 2016 by: Esquire,Time magazine, Vulture.com Longlisted for the FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award�...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Natural

Bernard Malamud

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever wr...

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Published: Jul 2003

Red Audrey and the Roping

Jill Malone

'This is a literary gem . . . one of the best books I've read this year.'-Ellen HartOccasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its readers back on their heels. Red Audrey and the Roping is one of that rare and remarkable breed....

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Published: Apr 2008

The Glass Hotel: A novel

Emily St John Mandel

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER • NPR • TIME • THE WASHINGTON POST• ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • AND MORE! “The perfect novel. . . . Freshly mysterious.&...

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Published: Feb 2021

Ohio

Stephen Markley

"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut."—The New York Times Book Review "A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book."—NPR"[A] descendent of the Dickensian 'social n...

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Published: Jun 2019

Reservoir 13

Jon McGregor

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017"A wonderful book. [Jon McGregor]'s an extraordinary writer, unlike anyone else." —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water Midwinter in an English village. ...

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Published: Nov 2017

Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities)...

Shannon Messenger

Sophie uncovers shocking secrets—and faces treacherous new enemies—in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive...

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Published: Aug 2015

King, Queen, Knave

Vladimir Nabokov

The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store.  Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha...

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Published: Jul 1989

A Bend in the River

V. S. Naipaul

In the 'brilliant novel' (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great rive...

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Published: Mar 1989

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim, The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful storie...

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Published: Jan 2018

Sonata for Miriam

Linda Olsson

A haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of Astrid & Veronika Linda Olsson's first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extraordinary understanding of human relationsh...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Gift of Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year.'THE DETROIT NEWSTwenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist...

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Published: Sep 1997

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

Tom Rachman

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver SunFor fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna Tartt—the brilliant, intricately wo...

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Published: Jul 2015

Driftless

David Rhodes

David Rhodes's long-awaited new novel turns an unblinking eye on an array of eccentric characters and situations. The setting is Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rage...

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Published: May 2009

The Rhythm of Memory

Alyson Richman

n this sweeping epic, true love transcends the brutality of war. Octavio Ribeiro loves truth, beauty, literature, and above all else, his wife Salome. As a student in Chile, he courted her with the words of great poets, and she fell i...

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Published: Oct 2012

Sparta: A Novel

Roxana Robinson

Conrad Farrell does not come from a military family, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic: Semper Fidelis comes straight from Sparta, a society where every citiz...

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Published: Jun 2014

Mr. Peanut

Adam Ross

David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can't imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively ...

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Published: Apr 2011

Trajectory: Stories (Vintage Contempo...

Richard Russo

The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo’s novels; and all are bound together by parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts. In “Horsem...

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Published: Apr 2018

Clover

Dori Sanders

Warmly engrossing...Sanders writes with wit and authority in this unusual gem of a love story.'CHICAGO TRIBUNEClover is a 10-year old black girl from a small town in South Carolina, whose life changes forever when her father dies and ...

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Published: Apr 1991

The Coffins of Little Hope

Timothy Schaffert

An 83-year-old obituary writer for a struggling, small-town newspaper finds herself embroiled in intrigue, stumbling onto the story of her career: a country girl has gone missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photograph...

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Published: Apr 2012

Cock and Bull

Will Self

Cock: A Novelette' is the story of a woman who grows a fully functional penis. 'Bull: A Farce' is the story of a man who acquires a vagina and all its companion parts. There are, however, complications. Cock & Bull, the book that intr...

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Published: Apr 2005

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

Dai Sijie

After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sad...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Train (Neversink)

Georges Simenon

Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the "Fat...

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Published: Jul 2011

Ordinary Love and Good Will

Jane Smiley

The emotional and moral complexity that [Jane Smiley] uncovers in the characters of these resonant novellas confirms [her] singular talent. ORDINARY LOVE & GOOD WILL is an extraordinary achievement.'THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDORDIN...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Christmas Letters

Lee Smith

In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. IIt's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the sha...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Mountain Lion

Jean Stafford

Two kids growing up in a genteel suburb of Los Angeles, Ralph and his younger sister, Molly, are independent-minded and highly imaginative and more than a little wild. They have no patience with the evasive politeness and mincing word...

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Published: Jun 2010
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