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  • IN COLD BLOOD
    IN COLD BLOOD
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, h...
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    Q. 190

  • FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
    FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
    HUNTER S. THOMPSON
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE ROAD
    THE ROAD
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    Even within the author's extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread.McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, 2005, etc.) pushes his thematic obsessions to their extremes in a parable that reads like Night of the Living Dead as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. Where much of McCarthy's fiction has been set in the recent past ...
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    Q. 110

  • KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    KAFKA ON THE SHORE
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary ...
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    Q. 110

  • ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
    ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
    KEN KESEY
    This guide to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" aims to help students understand the structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. Kesey's novel challenges the preconceived ideas of what constitutes sanity and insanity. ...
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    Q. 120

  • THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    AUSTER, PAUL
    "One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own...
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    Q. 180

  • GIRL, INTERRUPTED
    GIRL, INTERRUPTED
    SUSANNA KAYSEN
    In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treat...
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    Q. 120

  • ON THE ROAD
    ON THE ROAD
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road ...
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    Q. 190

  • HOLLYWOOD
    HOLLYWOOD
    BUKOWSKI, CHARLES
    Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry. ...
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    Q. 190

  • ONE DAY
    ONE DAY
    DAVID NICHOLLS
    It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial d...
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    Q. 190

  • THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
    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. 210

  • TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
    TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
    HENRY MILLER
    Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. ...
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    Q. 190

  • HIGH FIDELITY
    HIGH FIDELITY
    NICK HORNBY
    Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures.Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, w...
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    Q. 190

  • TROPIC OF CANCER
    TROPIC OF CANCER
    HENRY MILLER
    Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of ...
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    Q. 190

  • INDEPENDENCE DAY
    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. 180

  • LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
    LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
    BONNIE GARMUS
    #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. • STREAM ON APPLE TV+This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (T...
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    Q. 140

  • THE LOST APOTHECARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION
    THE LOST APOTHECARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION
    SARAH PENNER
    With over a million copies sold, this iconic bestseller is now available as a stunning collector's edition, featuring shimmering gold foil cover decorating, intricate butterfly sprayed edges, and gorgeously designed endpapers. Unearth the forgotten history of magic and murder, secrets and vengeance. The lost apothecary awaits... In eighteenth-century London, women whisper...
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    Q. 310

  • THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS
    THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    "Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and wh...
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    Q. 330

  • THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO: DELUXE EDITION HARDCOVER
    THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO: DELUXE EDITION HARDCOVER
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    A stunning hardcover special edition of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s sensational New York Times bestselling novel. A legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamo...
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    Q. 360

  • SPATRIATI
    SPATRIATI
    DESIATI, MARIO / MICHAEL F. MOORE
    Following two outcasts’ tumultuous friendship, this brilliant, Strega Prize–winning novel captures the probing, passionate nature of a generation of global citizens, exploring sexuality and identity.I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli, the spatriata, the name people...
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    Q. 190

  • THE MANIAC
    THE MANIAC
    BENJAMÍN LABATUT
    Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction“Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thr...
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    Q. 140

  • BEACH READ
    BEACH READ
    EMILY HENRY
    Emily Henry’s beloved New York Times bestselling novel now in this stunning hardcover collector’s edition featuring: • A shimmering revamped cover • Sunset sky art endpapers and sprayed edges • Gold foil stamped case, and... • A new introduction from the author and a bonus January and Gus epilogue, “The Layover” A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary wr...
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    Q. 360

  • THE MIDNIGHT CLUB
    THE MIDNIGHT CLUB
    MARGOT HARRISON
    Four friends. A campus reunion. A dark new way to relive the past."A strange, riveting, brilliant fable. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt's The Secret History." --LEV GROSSMAN"How could you leave the past undisturbed when it was hiding parts of you from yourself?"It's been twenty-five years since The Midnight Club last convened. A tight-knit group of college friends bonded by ...
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    Q. 290

  • TELL ME EVERYTHING: OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB
    TELL ME EVERYTHING: OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB
    STROUT, ELIZABETH
    OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “generous, compassionate novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful and meditative.”—The Boston Globe With her remarkable insight int...
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    Q. 310

  • HERE ONE MOMENT
    HERE ONE MOMENT
    LIANE MORIARTY
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world. “A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime.”—Anne LamottLife is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what ...
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    Q. 210

  • BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD BOXED SET
    BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD BOXED SET
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new box set. Step inside Tokyo's whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters, including: Before th...
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    Q. 430

  • WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT
    WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT
    SYOU ISHIDA / E. MADISON SHIMODA
    A cat a day keeps the doctor away…Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats.Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuin...
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    Q. 170

  • THE BOOKSHOP OF HIDDEN DREAMS
    THE BOOKSHOP OF HIDDEN DREAMS
    KAREN HAWKINS
    A brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time.When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate. Tay is still reeling from a romantic ...
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    Q. 220

  • MINA'S MATCHBOX
    MINA'S MATCHBOX
    YOKO OGAWA
    After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE BOOKBINDER
    THE BOOKBINDER
    PIP WILLIAMS
    A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words.“Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words...
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    Q. 200