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The Waves (Annotated)

Virginia Woolf

THE WAVES, Woolf's highly experimental, almost-prose-poem of a novel, asks the reader, 'What endures?' The answer calls out from the novel like an echo in a seashell: nothing. Everything changes, decays, morphs. Woolf sketches six liv...

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Published: Jul 2006

All the Birds, Singing: A Novel

Evie Wyld

From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past. Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of c...

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Published: Jan 2015

Behold the Many

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Sent to a Hawaiian orphanage for treatment of tuberculosis in 1913, Anah struggles with the deaths of her two younger sisters but finds their spirits growing angry as she survives into adulthood and prepares for married life. By the a...

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Published: Jan 2007

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a ...

Sunil Yapa

Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel, Ploughshares, Bustle, TheMillion...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Realm of Last Chances (Vintage Co...

Steve Yarbrough

A Washington Post Notable BookWhen Kristin Stevens loses her job at a prestigious California university, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to suburban Massachusetts, where Kristin is forced to take a position at a third-tier college....

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Published: May 2014

Meet Me at the Museum: A Novel

Anne Youngson

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel AwardFrom 70-year-old debut author Anne Youngson, a novel about a farmer's wife and a museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as "the charmer of the summer."In Denmark, Professor Ande...

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Published: Aug 2019

Mother, Mother

Koren Zailckas

From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughter...

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Published: Jun 2014

Ways of Going Home: A Novel

Alejandro Zambra

A brilliant novel from "the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction" (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who live...

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Published: Jan 2014

Sour Heart: Stories

Jenny Zhang

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot DíazWinner of the PEN/Robert W. B...

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Published: May 2018

Germinal

Emile Zola

Zola's depiction of the life of the laboring classes, and the struggle between capital and the workers in the mines of northern France, is an epic of naturalism that also possesses the richness and exactitude of a sociological documen...

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Published: May 2004

The Dream

Emile Zola

Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich - because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . .On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discove...

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Published: Nov 2018

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A No...

Deepa Anappara

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Published: May 2021

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

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Published: Jul 2021

Monogamy: A Novel

Sue Miller

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Published: May 2021

Utopia Avenue: A Novel

David Mitchell

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Published: May 2021

Two Truths and a Lie: A Novel

Meg Mitchell Moore

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Published: May 2021

Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories

Nana Nkweti

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Published: Jun 2021

Make My Bed In Hell

John Sanford

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Published: Apr 2021

The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel

Connie Schultz

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Published: Jun 2021

Ghosts of Harvard: A Novel

Francesca Serritella

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Published: Jun 2021

Rodham: A Novel

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Published: Jun 2021

Want

Lynn Steger Strong

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Published: Jul 2021

Ladder of Years: A Novel

Anne Tyler

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Published: Mar 1996

Spider

Patrick McGrath

Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. ...

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Published: Oct 1991

House Rules: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister's Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a "complex, compassionate, and smart" (The Washington Post) novel about a famil...

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Published: Nov 2010

Parable of the Talents (Earthseed Boo...

Octavia E. Butler

Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever.In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, an...

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Published: Aug 2019

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemptio...

Stephen King

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption--the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption--about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Murmur of Bees

Sofia Segovia

From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution.From the day...

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Published: Apr 2019

Oh William!: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind...

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Published: Apr 2022

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

Mark Twain

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain\'s story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice...

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Published: Nov 2018
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