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Lake Success: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart

"Spectacular."—NPR • "Uproariously funny."—The Boston Globe • "An artistic triumph."—San Francisco Chronicle • "A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced."—Th...

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Published: Jun 2019

M?nage

Alix Kates Shulman

Heather and Mack McKay seem to have it all: wealth, a dream house in the suburbs, and two adorable children along with the nannies to raise them. But their marriage has lost its savor: she is a frustrated writer and he longs for a cul...

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Published: May 2012

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance R...

Alan Sillitoe

Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform...

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Published: Mar 2010

City

Clifford D. Simak

Intelligent canines in a far-future city preserve the legends and lore of their absent human masters Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city-first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for o...

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Published: Jul 2015

One More Day

Kelly Simmons

Don't look awayNo one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben is gone, and more than a year l...

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Published: Feb 2016

The Story of Beautiful Girl

Rachel Simon

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution,the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgott...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Madonnas of Echo Park

Brando Skyhorse

We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours. With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and wo...

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Published: Feb 2011

Ad�le

Leila Slimani

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in ParisShe wants only one thing: to be wanted.Adèle appears ...

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Published: Jan 2019

Sourdough: or, Lois and Her Adventure...

Robin Sloan

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and un...

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Published: Sep 2018

Golden Age: A Novel (Last Hundred Yea...

Jane Smiley

A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, BookPageIt's 1987, and the next generation of Langdons is facing economic, social, and political challenges un...

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Published: Jun 2016

Perestroika in Paris: A novel

Jane Smiley

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in th...

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Published: Nov 2021

Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE******Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize***Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future and t...

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Published: Oct 2017

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

A New York Timesbestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize\r\n\r\nAn ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-a...

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Published: Sep 2017

Don't Send Flowers

Martin Solares

"A dry, sharp x-ray of the horror of life in the Gulf, the network of complicity, the scope of tragedy. A gritty, direct, exciting novel that is a must-read for anyone who wants to look at the hell that the Gulf (and Mexico at th...

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Published: Aug 2018

The Black Minutes

Martin Solares

When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police o...

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Published: May 2010

The Driver's Seat

Muriel Spark

The Driver's Seat, Spark's own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as "her spiny and treacherous masterpiece." Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adv...

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Published: Apr 2014

Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Deb Spera

Featured on Oprah's Summer Reading List For readers of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettab...

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Published: May 2020

Innocents and Others

Dana Spiotta

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Eat the Document and Stone Arabia, “A brilliant novel…about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes” (Ell...

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Published: Nov 2016

A Clue to the Exit

Edward St Aubyn

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling bestCharlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a cou...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Women in Black: A Novel

Madeleine St John

"The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up." --Hilary Mantel "A deceptively smart comic gem." -The New York Times Book Review "Witty and delicious." -People The women in black, so name...

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Published: Feb 2020

Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel

Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, ...

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Published: Sep 1990

Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morg...

John Steinbeck

In the 1670s Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: one to ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The History of Us: A Novel

Leah Stewart

Praised for "graceful prose and easy storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), the celebrated author of The Myth of You and Me presents the heartfelt story of three grown siblings who return to their childhood home to unravel a fam...

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Published: Aug 2013

Now You See Him

Anne Stuart

Francey Neeley's life has been torn to pieces. Her handsome and charming Irish boyfriend turned out to be a terrorist who was only after her fortune and planned to kill her once he got it. His "sister" forced Francey to help...

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Published: Feb 2015

Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse

Faith Sullivan

Nell Stillman's road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-tow...

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Published: Jun 2016

Saints for All Occasions: A novel (Vi...

J. Courtney Sullivan

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2017A Harper's Bazaar Best Book of 2017"This year's best book about family." —Ron Charles, The Washington PostA sweeping, ...

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Published: May 2018

Wish You Were Here (Vintage Internati...

Graham Swift

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack...

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Published: Jan 2013

Iza's Ballad

Magda Szabo

From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015An NYRB Classics OriginalLike Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of...

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Published: Oct 2016

All That Man Is: A Novel

David Szalay

Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for FictionA magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realismAll That Man Is traces the arc of life from ...

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Published: Oct 2017

My Absolute Darling: A Novel

Gabriel Tallent

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF NPR'S 'GREAT READS' OF...

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Published: Jun 2018
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