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  • DARK TALES
    DARK TALES
    SHIRLEY JACKSON
    For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and ...
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  • THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
    THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
    O'FARRELL, MAGGIE
    An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. The New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls “her breakout book.” Daniel Sullivan leads a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California,...
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    Q. 120

  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmai...
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    Q. 135

  • MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    DICK, PHILIP K.
    Now an Amazon Original series Winner of the Hugo Award "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career"--New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a wa...
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  • THE VEGETARIAN
    THE VEGETARIAN
    KANG, HAN
    WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)“Both ...
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  • THE FUR PERSON
    THE FUR PERSON
    SARTON, MAY
    2016 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This charming story is drawn from the true adventures of Sarton's own cat, and recounts his evolution from a stray to a gentleman cat, and finally, his emergence as a Fur Person. "A Fur Person is a cat who had decided to stay with people as long as he lives. T...
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    Q. 125

  • ONE TRUE LOVES
    ONE TRUE LOVES
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    From the author of Maybe in Another Life--named a People Magazine pick--comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the ex...
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    Q. 190

  • GIOVANNI´S ROOM
    GIOVANNI´S ROOM
    BALDWIN, JAMES
    Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human hear...
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    Q. 170

  • THE FINISHING SCHOOL
    THE FINISHING SCHOOL
    SPARK, MURIEL
    In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high.A keen portrait of devouri...
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    Q. 120

  • LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU
    LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU
    RICHARD FORD
    A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American g...
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  • THE ZONE OF INTEREST
    THE ZONE OF INTEREST
    AMIS, MARTIN
    NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz."A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can ach...
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  • MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE
    MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A People Magazine Pick * US Weekly “Must” Pick * Named “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour * Good Housekeeping * USA TODAY * Cosmopolitan * PopSugar * Working Mother * Bustle * Goodreads A breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an o...
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    Q. 190

  • DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS
    DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS
    SCHUMACHER, JULIE
    “Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York PostA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne Univers...
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    Q. 180

  • EUPHORIA
    EUPHORIA
    KING, LILY
    Euphoria is Lily King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the ‘30’s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is "dazzling ... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel.”—...
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    Q. 180

  • MOON TIGER
    MOON TIGER
    PENELOPE LIVELY
    Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhoo...
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  • MORNING AND EVENING
    MORNING AND EVENING
    FOSSE, JON / SEARLS, DAMION
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when every...
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    Q. 150

  • IN HIS OWN WRITE
    IN HIS OWN WRITE
    LENNON JOHN
    Introduced by Paul McCartneyABOUT THE AWFULI was bored on the 9th of October 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass-much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my and (P, G, and R's) records might see...
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    Q. 170

  • THE LUMINARIES
    THE LUMINARIES
    ELEANOR CATTON
    "The Luminaries is a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly, the great weight of the book shifting quickly from right hand to left, a world opening and closing in front of us, the human soul revealed in all its conflicted desperation. I mean glory. And as for ...
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    Q. 210

  • AMERICANAH
    AMERICANAH
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later. ...
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  • THE END OF DAYS
    THE END OF DAYS
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?--the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a bab...
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  • H IS FOR HAWK
    H IS FOR HAWK
    HELEN MACDONALD
    One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 1...
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    Q. 190

  • GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
    GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
    BALDWIN, JAMES
    One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, p...
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  • FOREVER, INTERRUPTED
    FOREVER, INTERRUPTED
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo “Touching and powerful...Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel.”u200b —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extra...
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    Q. 210

  • THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    MADELINE MILLER
    “At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan...
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  • CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING
    CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING
    DOROTHY BAKER
    Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragi...
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  • LOLITA
    LOLITA
    NAVOKOV, VLADIMIR
    The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.. Show more . Show less . ...
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  • THE MEOWMORPHOSIS
    THE MEOWMORPHOSIS
    KAFKA, FRANZ / COOK, COLERIDGE
    “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.”Thus begins The Meowmorphosis—a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Franz Kafka’s classic nightmare tale, from the publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to suppo...
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  • VISITATION
    VISITATION
    ERPENBECK, JENNY
    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors. A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialis...
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  • NIGHTMARE ALLEY
    NIGHTMARE ALLEY
    WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM
    Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him....
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  • GODS BEHAVING BADLY
    GODS BEHAVING BADLY
    MARIE PHILLIPS
    Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ.Even more disturbingly, their powers are wa...
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