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Five Star Billionaire

Tash Aw

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND BOOKPAGELook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.An expansive, eye-opening novel tha...

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Published: Jul 2014

Bunny

Mona Awad

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled O Bunny you are sooo genius " --Margaret Atwood, via Twi...

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Published: Jun 2020

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chap...

Julian Barnes

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

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Published: Nov 1990

Forty Stories

Donald Barthelme

The late National Book Award-winning author offers a collection of short stories that reflects society's follies and foibles--including, "At the Tolstoy Museum," "Sentence," and "Porcupines at the University&q...

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Published: Feb 2005

Brodie's Report

Jorge Luis Borges

Written in the 1960s and set against the macho backdrop of the Argentine underworld, these eleven stories--including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel"--examine the effects of the unbearable, the sinister, and the ine...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Muse: A Novel

Jessie Burton

"Love, war, desire, and art—it's all here." —ElleTwo Women. Two Ears. One painting that ties them together.July 1967, Mayfair, London--a painting is left propped on the doorstep of the Skeleton Gallery, discovered by Ode...

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Published: May 2017

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.  In the years since, it has become a classic.  Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificen...

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Published: May 2000

Overqualified

Joey Comeau

Told entirely through job application letters, this starkly humorous story follows Joey as he halfheartedly looks for a job. With his younger brother Adrian in the hospital after being hit by a drunk driver, Joey can't seem to muster ...

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Published: Apr 2009

A Thousand Pardons

Jonathan Dee

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee's novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really w...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Winemaker's Daughter

Timothy Egan

Brunella, an accomplished Seattle architect, stumbles upon a a web of family secrets, while struggling to help her aging father protect his beloved vineyard during a drought that is ravaging the Pacific Northwest and investigating the...

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Published: Jan 2005

Dinner at the Center of the Earth (Vi...

Nathan Englander

The new novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges—a political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret c...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Forgotten Waltz

Anne Enright

"This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred review"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narra...

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Published: Apr 2012

After the Lie: A gripping novel about...

Kerry Fisher

Your past will devastate your family. But your lies could destroy them. What would YOU do?Sometimes a lie can split your life in two. There is "before", and there is "after". Try as you might – you can never go ...

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Published: Apr 2016

Towards Another Summer

Janet Frame

Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she ac...

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Published: Apr 2010

In My Father's House

Ernest J. Gaines

A story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious 'meeting' with the Revere...

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Published: Jun 1992

Strange Pilgrims

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

These 12 stories about travelers include a brief sketch of Pablo Neruda ("I Sell My Dreams"), a bitterly satirical story about a Latin American couple in France ("The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow’’), and ...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Man in the Wooden Hat

Jane Gardam

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane GardamÂ's masterpiece, a book where life...

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Published: Oct 2009

Someone I Loved

Anna Gavalda

Anna Gavalda's Someone I Loved is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet occasionally valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals involved. Readers familiar with I Wish Someone W...

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Published: Jan 2005

The Dark Fields

Alan Glynn

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM RELATIVITY MEDIAA burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife'...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Serialist

David Gordon

A stylish literary page-turner about a writer forced to play detective when a serial killer hires him to tell his story—and three women turn up dead.

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Published: Mar 2010

Dead Man's Chest (Miss Fisher's Murde...

Kerry Greenwood

Traveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza with her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice holiday b...

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Published: Dec 2017

Everything Flows

Vasily Grossman

A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is the last novel by Vasily Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, and the besieged modern soul, Life and Fate. The cen...

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Published: Nov 2009

The Good Father

Noah Hawley

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.  As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialt...

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Published: Mar 2012

The FALL OF A SPARROW: A NOVEL

Robert Hellenga

Robert Hellenga's superb debut, The Sixteen Pleasures, took the reader to 1960s Florence--a place of floods, fine art, and erotic discovery. His new novel, The Fall of a Sparrow, also opens in Italy, now transformed by the onslaught o...

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Published: Jul 1999

The Quickening

Michelle Hoover

Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she work...

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Published: Jun 2010

Take Me with You

Catherine Ryan Hyde

August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Fair Play

Tove Jansson

A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationTwo women, both artists, no longer young, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building, their studios connected by an attic passagew...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson

Like the clear, brilliantly blue sky that hangs over the small island on which it’s set, The Summer Book is intense, fleeting, and perfect. Tove Jansson’s slender novel is a season told in episodes in the lives a six-year-...

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Published: May 2008

2 A.M. in Little America

Ken Kalfus

An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022" A San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022" A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" From “an important writer in every sense” (David Fo...

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Published: Sep 2022

Burial Rites: A Novel

Hannah Kent

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with t...

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Published: Sep 2013
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