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  • THE GOLDFINCH -20%
    THE GOLDFINCH
    TARTT, DONNA
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mo...
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    Q. 240Q. 192

  • AND THEN SHE FELL -20%
    AND THEN SHE FELL
    ALICIA ELLIOTT
    A Most Anticipated Book Pick by Good Morning America, Bustle, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, Debutiful, Ms. Magazine, The Nerd Daily, and PasteA mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequencesOn the surface, Alice is exactly where s...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • A SUMMER BIRD-CAGE -20%
    A SUMMER BIRD-CAGE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had adored her elder sister, but Louise had grown up to be an arrogant, selfish, cold and extravagant woman. She was also breath-takingly beautiful. The man she was to marry, Stephen Halifax, was a successful novelist, very rich and snobbishly unpleasant. From Sarah's first night at hom...
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    Q. 130Q. 104

  • HELLO BEAUTIFUL (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB) -20%
    HELLO BEAUTIFUL (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
    NAPOLITANO, ANN
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a "powerfully affecting" (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?"Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life's highs and lows with aching precision."—The Washington PostONE OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S TEN B...
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    Q. 130Q. 104

  • VICTIM -20%
    VICTIM
    ANDREW BORYGA
    "You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done...Pitch perfect." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingThere's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diver...
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    Q. 280Q. 224

  • PIC -20%
    PIC
    JACK KEROUAC
    Se mettre dans la peau d'un jeune orphelin noir, voilà ce que Jack Kerouac a réussi à faire dans son tout dernier roman. Dédoublement significatif, aliénation symbolique, projection de sympathie et d'engagement, Pic est certainement tout cela et plus encore : un portrait saisissant du milieu noir américain des années quarante, ses odeurs, ses couleurs, ses personnages truculent...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • THE CARTOGRAPHERS -20%
    THE CARTOGRAPHERS
    PENG SHEPHERD
    "The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice." -- Washington Post"There are echoes of Borges and Bradbury, Pynchon and Finian's Rainbow, but Ms. Shepherd's exhilarating and enjoyable work casts a magical glow all its own." -- Wall Street JournalFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman w...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • QUEER -20%
    QUEER
    WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
    The definitive text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-port...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAW -20%
    WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAW
    MELISSA ADELMAN
    Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb.Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses...When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their se...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • THE LIGHTNING BOTTLES -20%
    THE LIGHTNING BOTTLES
    MARISSA STAPLEY
    The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock 'n' roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre's journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.He was the troubled face of rock 'n' roll...until he suddenly disappeared witho...
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    Q. 230Q. 184

  • TOM LAKE -20%
    TOM LAKE
    ANN PATCHETT
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern M...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • LITTLE MONSTERS -20%
    LITTLE MONSTERS
    BRODEUR, ADRIENNE
    "A juicy story...Simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open." --The Washington Post * "So alluring...I raced happily through the pages." --The New York Times Book Review * "An absolutely captivating read." --Elin Hilderbrand * "Gorgeously told...The work of a seasoned and wonderfully wise storyteller." --Paula McLainFrom the author of the bestselling memoir Wild ...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • THE RABBIT HUTCH -20%
    THE RABBIT HUTCH
    GUNTY, TESS
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about - Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.--The GuardianBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents -- neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housi...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • THE MYSTERY GUEST -20%
    THE MYSTERY GUEST
    NITA PROSE
    A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARMolly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author,...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • THE MILLSTONE -20%
    THE MILLSTONE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties. ...
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    Q. 140Q. 112

  • RAINBOW BLACK -20%
    RAINBOW BLACK
    MAGGIE THRASH
    "I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame--murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel ...
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    Q. 200Q. 160

  • SCENES FROM A CHILDHOOD -20%
    SCENES FROM A CHILDHOOD
    FOSSE, JON
    Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then M...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • THE SIRENS -20%
    THE SIRENS
    EMILIA HART
    "A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that precede...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED -20%
    THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
    JONAS JONASSON
    The international publishing sensation--over two million copies soldA reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over...After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, a...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • LIBERATION DAY -20%
    LIBERATION DAY
    GEORGE SAUNDERS
    "The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismat...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • CHAIN GANG ALL STARS -20%
    CHAIN GANG ALL STARS
    ADJEI-BRENYAH, NANA KWAME
    Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom...
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    Q. 140Q. 112

  • NIGHTS OF PLAGUE -20%
    NIGHTS OF PLAGUE
    ORHAN PAMUK
    A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria--the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. H...
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    Q. 350Q. 280

  • INDEPENDENCE DAY -20%
    INDEPENDENCE DAY
    RICHARD FORD
    The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in H...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • THE GIRL I WAS -20%
    THE GIRL I WAS
    JENEVA ROSE
    From New York Times bestselling author, Jeneva Rose, comes a fully updated and expanded edition of THE GIRL I WAS, the first book she ever wrote, featuring six brand-new chapters from a fresh point-of-view. "While packing a delightful punch of nostalgia, The Girl I Was delivers one of the most satisfying character transformations I've read in a while...Jeneva Rose's latest i...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • THE GIFT OF RAIN -20%
    THE GIFT OF RAIN
    TWAN, ENG TAN
    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEPenang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such...
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    Q. 150Q. 120

  • OCCUPATION -20%
    OCCUPATION
    JULIÁN FUKS
    "This is one beautiful book."--Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sickness, and his wife's pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds ...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY -20%
    THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    ERNAUX, ANNIE / MARIE, MARC / ALISON L. STRAYER
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**Serialized in The New Yorker**An account of Annie Ernaux's love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories.Includes 14 color still-life photographs by the authors.A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2024"A must-read for lovers of words, im...
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    Q. 240Q. 192

  • THE WOMAN IN THE PURPLE SKIRT -20%
    THE WOMAN IN THE PURPLE SKIRT
    IMAMURA, NATSUKO
    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR · Marie Claire"A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession." --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train"[It] will keep you firmly in its grip." --Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer"The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith." --Kelly Link, bestselli...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • THE TRUNK -20%
    THE TRUNK
    KIM RYEO-RYEONG
    NOW A NETFLIX TV SERIES The English language debut from bestselling Korean author Kim Ryeo-ryeong - an edgy, arresting drama about a secret marriage service for Korea's wealthy elite, and one unlikely couple in the thick of it all. Meet Noh Inji: almost thirty years old, with five wedding rings and counting, she's never once been in love. When Inji first accepted a job...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX -20%
    THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX
    O"FARRELL, MAGGIE
    Maggie O'Farrell's captivating and critically acclaimed gothic tale of family secrets and the irrepressible freedom that truth brings Chic and independent, Iris Lockhart is tending to her vintage-clothing shop in Edinburgh (and evading her married boyfriend) when she receives a stunning phone call: her great-aunt Esme—whom she never knew existed—is being released from Cauldst...
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    Q. 200Q. 160