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by Elizabeth Strout
Published May 2026
Read ReviewsPulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout's new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher's life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Oct 2022
Read ReviewsJonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
by John Green
Published Jun 2019
Read Reviews#1 bestselling author John Green returns with his first new novel since The Fault in Our Stars!
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom
by Maggie O'Farrell
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsSophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richly textured psychological drama with page-turning suspense. Instructions for a Heatwave finds her at the top of her game, with a novel about a family crisis set during the legendary British heatwave of 1976.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsWith devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
by Kate Christensen
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsFrom the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.
by Andrea Kayne Kaufman
Published Nov 2011
Read ReviewsOxford Messed Up is a unique literary love story that transports readers on a meaningful and emotional journey where the academic world of Oxford, the music of Van Morrison, and an old claw-foot bathtub serve as a backdrop for learning, self-discovery, and transcendent love.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsFreedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
by John Wray
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsBy turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.
by Rivka Galchen
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsAtmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.
by Lisa Genova
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsStill Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
by Richard Powers
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of ...
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
by Zadie Smith
Published Jun 2001
Read ReviewsEpic and intimate, hilarious and poignant - the story of two North London families - one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal.
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