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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

We Are Unprepared

Meg Little Reilly

We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other…the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. B...

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Published: Aug 2016

House of Glass

Sophie Littlefield

Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield delivers a riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines story about a family put to the ultimate test when two men take them hostage inside their home Jen Glass has worked hard to achieve the ideal life: ...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories...

Ken Liu

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm,...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Boy in the Field: A Novel

Margot Livesey

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year | An O Magazine Best Book of the Year The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered” (De...

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Published: Jul 2021

No One Is Talking About This: A Novel...

Patricia Lockwood

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021    “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” &mdas...

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Published: Feb 2022

Edgar and Lucy: A Novel

Victor Lodato

"On every page Lodato's prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit, making Edgar & Lucy a delight to read...Lodato keeps us in his thrall because his grip on the tiller stays reassuringly firm. Not to mention the supporting cast he's ...

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Published: Feb 2018

Doppler

Erlend Loe

Doppler has just lost his father. Despite the fact that he has a pregnant wife and two children, he decides to move into the woods. Here he starts a lonely and purposefully boring existence. He has never been so happy. When Doppler ki...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Affairs of Others

Amy Grace Loyd

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, Celia believes that she has a right to her ghosts, and s...

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Published: Aug 2014
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