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  • A SHINING
    A SHINING
    FOSSE, JON / SEARLS, DAMION
    WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows col...
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  • FLIGHT
    FLIGHT
    LYNN STEGER STRONG
    "Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats." -- Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers "Suspenseful, dazzling and moving." -- Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin...
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  • WHAT WILD WOMEN DO
    WHAT WILD WOMEN DO
    BROWN, KARMA
    "Karma Brown keeps delivering knockout after knockout. She is an auto-buy author for me!" --Taylor Jenkins ReidIf you want to transform, you can't be tentative. --Eddie Callaway, Wild Women Handbook (1975)An aspiring contemporary screenwriter, a 1970s socialite-turned-feminist, and the camp in the woods that ties their stories together forever, in #1 internationally bestselling...
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  • ALISS AT THE FIRE
    ALISS AT THE FIRE
    FOSSE, JON
    In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the ba...
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  • MUDFLOWERS
    MUDFLOWERS
    ALEY WATERMAN
    "A gorgeous depiction of the tender, painful stretching required to love well and expansively, to recast our ideas of romance and family." -- Aimee Wall, author of We, JaneIn the year following her mother's death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.It's the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-se...
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  • ROMAN STORIES
    ROMAN STORIES
    JHUMPA LAHIRI
    The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine storiesIn “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside...
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    Q. 190

  • POOR THINGS [MOVIE TIE-IN]
    POOR THINGS [MOVIE TIE-IN]
    ALASDAIR GRAY
    Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Wi...
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  • THE ARMOR OF LIGHT (KINGSBRIDGE)
    THE ARMOR OF LIGHT (KINGSBRIDGE)
    FOLLETT KEN
    The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere wit...
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  • ANNIE ERNAUX: THE BOXED SET
    ANNIE ERNAUX: THE BOXED SET
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    Thirteen books written by 2022 Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux published by Seven Stories Press.Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux is considered one of Europe's most important contemporary writers. She has expanded the very meaning of literature and has asserted her feminism and class consciousness in the stories she tells.Spanning Annie Ernaux's English lan...
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  • THE UNSETTLED
    THE UNSETTLED
    MATHIS, AYANA
    From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"[A] powerful book.” —Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of GileadFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-ye...
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  • AND THEN SHE FELL
    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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  • LADIES' LUNCH
    LADIES' LUNCH
    SEGAL, LORE
    The New Yorker's Best Book of the Year!"Segal writes with welcome clarity about life’s final years, and if her characters are not always as wise as they think they are, Segal eyes them all with the unsentimental wisdom of a life spent writing wondrous stories and essays, a career spent telling the truth." - Slate"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the bes...
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  • THE LAST OF WHAT I AM
    THE LAST OF WHAT I AM
    ABIGAIL CUTTER
    A haunting and beautifully written novel about a Confederate soldier whose own personal war follows him into the afterlife--until one fateful day when his encounters with a modern-day couple change everything. A ghost in his deserted childhood home in Virginia, Tom Smiley can't forget the bloody war and its meaningless losses, nor can he shed his revulsion for his role in the C...
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    Q. 190

  • WELLNESS
    WELLNESS
    HILL, NATHAN
    When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous wo...
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    Q. 210

  • THESE THINGS HAPPEN
    THESE THINGS HAPPEN
    MICHAEL EON
    Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his pain--except for the one thing that might work.Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the shadow of his tyrannical father and against the backdrop of the Son of Sam murders, the Karen Ann Quinlan tragedy, and the New York Yankees' back-to-back championship seasons, Daniel Zimmer struggles to find a sense of safety and belonging. Dani...
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    Q. 190

  • THE POLE
    THE POLE
    COETZEE, J.M.
    Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential--and provocative--authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a "brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don't want to think about" (Washington Post), Coetzee here challenges us to interrogate our preconceptions not only of love, but of truth it...
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    Q. 270

  • HOW I WON A NOBEL PRIZE
    HOW I WON A NOBEL PRIZE
    JULIUS TARANTO
    An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage)Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save th...
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    Q. 280

  • THE YOUNG MAN
    THE YOUNG MAN
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnnie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanesc...
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  • THE WINNERS
    THE WINNERS
    BACKMAN, FREDRIK
    Return to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown with this "engrossing page-turner" (Woman's World) about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove.Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change.Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think a...
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  • DAUGHTER
    DAUGHTER
    CLAUDIA DEY
    A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—of her own.To be loved by your father is to be loved by God.So says Mona Dean—playwright, actress, and daughter of a man famous for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half sister, their...
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  • WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY
    WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY
    MICHIKO AOYAMA
    For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life.What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them...
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  • A SHOT IN THE DARK
    A SHOT IN THE DARK
    LEE, VICTORIA
    A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee“A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead RomanticsElisheva Cohen has jus...
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  • I'M A FAN
    I'M A FAN
    PATEL, SHEENA
    “A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut” ([UK]) about power, intimacy, and the internet I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all invo...
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  • IF I SURVIVE YOU
    IF I SURVIVE YOU
    JONATHAN ESCOFFERY
    NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION!Finalist for the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award and the Southern Book Award. Nominated for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2023 Pen/Jean Stein Open Book Award, the 2023 Pen/Bingham Prize, the 2022 Story Prize, the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Brookl...
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  • JOLLOF RICE AND OTHER REVOLUTIONS
    JOLLOF RICE AND OTHER REVOLUTIONS
    OMOLOLA IJEOMA OGUNYEMI
    igerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling novel which explores her homeland’s past, present, and possible future through the interconnected stories of four fearless globe-trotting women.Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions is a window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challen...
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    Q. 190

  • LEARNED BY HEART
    LEARNED BY HEART
    EMMA DONOGHUE
    Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine...
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  • STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE
    STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE
    SARAH BERNSTEIN
    Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeLonglisted for the 2023 Giller PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears...
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    Q. 240

  • AFTER YOU'D GONE
    AFTER YOU'D GONE
    O'FARRELL, MAGGIE
    The stunning, groundbreaking debut novel of wrenching love and grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and National Book Circle Award Winner HamnetAlice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours la...
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  • MY LOVER'S LOVER
    MY LOVER'S LOVER
    O'FARRELL, MAGGIE
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet comes an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca.When Lily moves into new boyfriend Marcus’s apartment and plunges headlong into their relationship, she must contend with an intangible, hostile presence—Marcus’s e...
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  • THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    JAMES MCBRIDE
    In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by ...
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