Literary

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The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolano

The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation, but his novel The Savage Detectives is a lot closer to Y Tu Mamá Tambien than it is to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Hilarious and sexy, ...

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Published: Mar 2008

A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel

Isabel Allende

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits,this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a plac...

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Published: Apr 2021

A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel

Anne Tyler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Chicago Tribune �...

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Published: Apr 2016

A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel

Ruth Ozeki

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki-shortlisted for the Booker Prize"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."...

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Published: Dec 2013

The Three Weissmanns of Westport

Cathleen Schine

Jane Austen's beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novel When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-fiv...

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Published: Feb 2011

In America

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, THE VOLCANO LOVER, IN AMERICA masquerades as historical fiction, flaunting the stuff of drama and...

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Published: May 2001

Nightwoods

Charles Frazier

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young wom...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel

Ruth Hogan

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, a...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

The instant New York Times bestseller and celebrated family love story heralded as "perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt" (People).If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New Y...

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Published: Feb 2019

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess B...

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Published: Nov 2016

Milkman: A Novel

Anna Burns

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique."―The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while...

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Published: Dec 2018

I, Ripper: A Novel

Stephen Hunter

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five ...

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Published: Dec 2015

Transcription: A Novel

Kate Atkinson

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After LifeIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department ...

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Published: Apr 2019

Welcome to Braggsville

T. Geronimo Johnson

National BestsellerFrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Yellow Birds: A Novel

Kevin Powers

A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and ...

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Published: May 2013

A Happy Marriage

Rafael Yglesias

A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margare...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Book of Night Women

Marlon James

A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of th...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Butterfly House

Marcia Preston

A decade after a devastating fire that destroyed her friend's home of Rockhaven and claimed her own alcoholic mother's life, Roberta continues to be haunted by the tragedy and struggles to come to terms with the dark secret she posses...

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Published: Aug 2006

Where Darkness Lives

Robert Ross

When a whirlwind affair with a gorgeous financier leads to a hasty marriage, Kate Colson soon discovers that her new husband is not what he seems after she arrives at his family's estate and begins seing disturbing visions, which caus...

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Published: Jul 2002

The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake

Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence "The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." --The Washington Post The thought-provoking new novel by New York...

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Published: May 2020

Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands

Susan Carol McCarthy

Set agains the background of the Civil Rights movement and based on true events, this novel tells the story of Reesa McMahon, who loses both her best friend and her brother to Ku Klux Klan violence and who must struggle to overcome ha...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Japanese Lover: A Novel

Isabel Allende

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the...

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Published: Aug 2016

Innocents

Cathy Coote

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into ...

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Published: Aug 2002

Pushkin Hills

Sergei Dovlatov

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of ...

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Published: Mar 2015

Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf

A shocking discovery and chilling secrets converge in this latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately caus...

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Published: May 2017

How the Light Gets In

M. J. Hyland

Desperate to escape a life of poverty in Sydney, Australia, Lou Connor, a gifted sixteen-year-old student, is delighted to be given the opportunity to become an exchange student at an Illinois college, but her difficulty in coping wit...

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Published: May 2004

Unsheltered: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

New York Times bestsellerAn NPR pick for Best Books of 2018An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Book of 2018A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018One of Newsweek's Best Boo...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST**A New York Times Notable BookA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the YearAn NPR Great Read of 2014A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the fi...

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Published: Aug 2015

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxvi...

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Published: May 1992

Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities)...

Shannon Messenger

Sophie uncovers shocking secrets—and faces treacherous new enemies—in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive...

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Published: Aug 2015
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