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A Novel
by Paolo Giordano
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Published May 2016
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by Lily Tuck
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsSlender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.
by Amara Lakhous
Published Mar 2012
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by Kate Racculia
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsA sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a long-buried secret set the stage for a luminous and heart-breakingly real novel about lost souls finding one another.
by Alina Bronsky
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsAn engrossing and thoroughly contemporary novel on what it means to be young, alive, and conscious in these first decades of the new century.
by Aleksandar Hemon
Published Dec 2009
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by Andrew Sean Greer
Published Mar 2009
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by Muriel Barbery
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsUnafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
by Andrew Sean Greer
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsAn extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.
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by Mark Haddon
Published May 2004
Read Reviews'Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy.'
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