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by Joshua Ferris
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by Jonathan Evison
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsLawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.
by Jonas Karlsson
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsFunny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsBertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. A brilliantly conceived, seamlessly written comic work worthy of the master himself.
by Lionel Shriver
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.
by Sam Lipsyte
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsProbing many themesor, perhaps, anxietiesincluding work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often...
by Tom Rachman
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsSet against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachmans wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep itand themselvesafloat.
by Jonathan Tropper
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bindwhether we like it or not.
by Ivo Stourton
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsThe Night Climbers, set among members of a close-knit eccentric club at Cambridge, portrays people at their most impressionable, when the intensity of early relationships stand to define their lives forever.
by Will Self
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsLondon cabdriver Dave Rudmans wife deserts him for another man taking their only son with her. Fearing his son will never know him, Dave writes him a book containing his experience and thoughts - and then buries it, intending it for him when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered, where it becomes a sacred...
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by Marisha Pessl
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsA darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.
by Allison Pearson
Published Aug 2003
Read ReviewsIn a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has.
by Chuck Palahniuk
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else. (Excerpt contains explicit content).
by John Irving
Published Jun 1997
Read ReviewsA worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time.
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