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The Virgin Suicides (Twenty-Fifth Ann...

Jeffrey Eugenides

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New IntroductionFirst published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet ...

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Published: Oct 2018

Wit's End

Karen Joy Fowler

"[A] delightful and eccentric new tale"(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club once again...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Forgetting Time: A Novel

Sharon Guskin

"What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across decades and continents?…A relentlessly paced page-turner and a profound meditation on the meaning of life." ―Christ...

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Published: Feb 2017

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia...

Mohsin Hamid

"Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good.&q...

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Published: Mar 2014

Lovely Wild

Megan Hart

From New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart comes a haunting and insightful novel about a woman trying to find her place in the world… Brought up in the savage captivity of her unstable grandmother's rural Pennsylvania home, ...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Tortoise and the Hare

Elizabeth Jenkins

The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life could offer—a gracious riverside house in Berkshire, a beautiful young wife, Imogen, who is devoted to him, and their 11-year-old s...

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Published: Feb 2009

A Christmas Blizzard

Garrison Keillor

The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-en...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Long Song

Andrea Levy

THE AUTHOR OF SMALL ISLAND TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICASmall Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" (S...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Zachary Mason

A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITERZachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and h...

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Published: Jan 2011

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Eimear McBride

The dazzling, fearless debut novel that the New York Times hails as "a future classic"In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother...

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Published: Jun 2015

To Be Sung Underwater

Tom McNeal

Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio." Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. M...

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Published: Jun 2012

Sweetgirl

Travis Mulhauser

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter's Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother lea...

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Published: Nov 2016

One More Thing: Stories and Other Sto...

B. J. Novak

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 p...

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Published: Feb 2015

Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemp...

Jenny Offill

In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. "Dept. of Speculation" was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay a...

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Published: Oct 2014

Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Nove...

Julia Pierpont

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND THE HUFFINGTON POST• Features an exclusive conversation between Julia Pierpont and Lena DunhamFor fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan...

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Published: Jun 2016

Wetlands

Charlotte Roche

With more than one million copies sold in Germany and rights snapped up in twenty-seven countries, Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around t...

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Published: Feb 2010

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

Ordinary Decent Criminals

Lionel Shriver

A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication—an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland....

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Published: Aug 2015

Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.NAMED ONE OF THE B...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Book Lover

Ali Smith

From the award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes a sparkling, surprising collection of the writing she loves best — and without which she would not have become a writer.The Book Lover is a treasure trove of what...

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Published: Nov 2008

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

J. Ryan Stradal

“A sweet and savory treat.” —People“An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s PickKitche...

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Published: Jun 2016

My Other Life

Paul Theroux

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 'a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond.' The book sp...

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Published: Sep 1997

Man Gone Down

Michael Thomas

The down-on-his-luck hero of MAN GONE DOWN has overcome his alcoholism to build a family in Brooklyn, but must face the crippling oppression of a faltering economy when he suddenly has only four days to pay for a new apartment and his...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Detective's Secret (The Detective...

Lesley Thomson

Jack Harmon craves silence and a bird's eye view. From his new home in Palmyra Tower, he can raise binoculars to watch over west London. If he watches for long enough, he will learn who has secrets. He will learn who plans to kill. Bu...

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Published: Apr 2016

One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Jonathan Tropper

The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy's struggle to reconnect."Mistakes have been made." Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn't going t...

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Published: May 2013

My Name is Anton: A Novel

Catherine Ryan Hyde

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love.\n\nIt’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year ...

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Published: Dec 2020

Accommodations

Accommodations follows Wiola after she leaves her childhood village, a close-knit agricultural community in Poland where the Catholic calendar and local gossip punctuate daily life. Her new independence in the nearby city of Czestocho...

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Published: Jun 2019

Benefit

A young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation “A smart, razor-sharp exploration of the precarious island of academic life and the cold unforgiving waters ...

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Published: Apr 2022

Cornelius Sky

"The novel is set against a backdrop of a crumbling Manhattan, where tensions are high and things seem to be at a breaking point, mirroring the chaos in Sky's own life. Brandoff comes to the material honestly, having worked as a city ...

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Published: Aug 2019

Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, th...

A tale of two idiots―the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego―who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious ...

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Published: May 2019
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