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My Struggle: Book 1

Karl Ove Knausgaard

My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. ...

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Published: May 2013

My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love

Karl Ove Knausgaard

"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." —James Wood, The New YorkerIn the second installment of Karl Ove Kn...

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Published: May 2014

The Devil and Webster

Jean Hanff Korelitz

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses. Naomi Rot...

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Published: Mar 2018

The Widow Waltz: A Novel

Sally Koslow

Chosen by People and USA Today as a Great Summer Read  Georgia Waltz has an enviable life: a plush Manhattan apartment, a Hamptons beach house, two bright twenty-something daughters, and a seemingly perfect marriage. But when Ben die...

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Published: May 2014

The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a...

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Published: Jun 2002

Forest Dark

Nicole Krauss

National BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017Named Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, Popsugar, and Globe and Mail&q...

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Published: Aug 2018

Erased

Jim Krusoe

When Theodore receives a postcard saying "I need to see you," he initially ignores it — after all, it's unsettling to open mail from one's dead mother. But when another card arrives he can no longer put off the urgent meet...

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Published: Jun 2009

Girl in Snow

Danya Kukafka

“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered...

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Published: Apr 2018

Farewell Waltz

Milan Kundera

It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness.''Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in ...

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Published: May 1998

White Tears: A novel (Vintage Contemp...

Hari Kunzru

Ghost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--White Tears is all of this and more, a thrilling investigation of race and appropriation in society today.Seth is a shy, awkward twentysomething. Carter is more glamorous, th...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Mars Room

Rachel Kushner

TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDLONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALAn instant New York Times bestseller from t...

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Published: May 2019

Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jean Kwok

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA- TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times - Time - Marie Claire - Elle - Buzzfeed - Huffington Post - Good Housekeeping - The Week - Goodreads - Ne...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Restaurant Critic's Wife

Elizabeth LaBan

People magazine included The Restaurant Critic's Wife on their Great New Fiction list and hailed it as "thoroughly entertaining."People magazine included The Restaurant Critic's Wife on their Great New Fiction list and haile...

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Published: Jan 2016

The Answers: A Novel

Catherine Lacey

Named to Most Anticipated and Must Read lists by Huffington Post, W, Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed and Chicago ReaderWritten by one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Catherine Lacey's The Answers is a "novel of intellect and amp...

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Published: Jun 2018

Harvest

Catherine Landis

A tale set in a southern community outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, follows themes of family, marriage, farming, baseball, the power of marriage, and human resilience in the face of loss and sacrifice. By the author of Some Days There...

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Published: Oct 2005

Angel Baby: A Novel

Richard Lange

**Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award**A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans c...

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Published: May 2014

The Changeling: A Novel

Victor LaValle

“If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See“A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and ...

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Published: Mar 2018

A Perfect Spy

John Le Carre

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two...

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Published: Jan 2003

Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel

Caroline Leavitt

"A seductive page-turner that ripples with an undercurrent of suspense." —The Boston Globe"A seamless triumph of storytelling." —Gail Godwin, author of Flora It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Expatriates

Janice Y. K. Lee

"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars“A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Bo...

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Published: Oct 2016

Temporary (Emily Books)

Hilary Leichter

In Temporary,a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, ...

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Published: Mar 2020

The Child Who

Simon Lelic

An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts. A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Le...

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Published: Mar 2012

Castle

J. Robert Lennon

"Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing." —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purcha...

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Published: Apr 2010

10:04: A Novel

Ben Lerner

Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:The New YorkerThe New York Times Book ReviewThe Wall Street JournalThe Village VoiceThe Boston Globe NPR Vanity FairThe Guardian (London) The L MagazineThe Times Literary Supplement (Londo...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE\r\n\r\nWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE\r\nONE OF THENEW YORK TIMESTOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR\r\n\r\nA TIME, GQ, Vulture,and WASHINGTON POSTTOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR\r\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA\'S FAV...

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Published: Oct 2020

Number One Chinese Restaurant

Lillian Li

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine"A joy to read―I couldn't get enough."―Buzzfe...

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Published: Jun 2019

Kinder Than Solitude

Yiyun Li

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Diagnosis

Alan Lightman

Bill Chalmers, a Boston executive on his way to work, abruptly loses his memory and has no idea who he is or what he's supposed to be doing. As his memory returns (after a series of daunting experiences) he begins to have other sympto...

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Published: Feb 2002

Preparation For The Next Life

Atticus Lish

Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family ma...

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Published: Feb 2010
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