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by Gary Shteyngart
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by Vincenzo Latronico
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsA scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.
by Paul Beatty
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsThe Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize.
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution,...
by Boris Fishman
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsA singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
by Chang-rae Lee
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsAgainst a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.
by Robert Boswell
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
by Fiona Maazel
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsWoke Up Lonely is an original and deeply funny novel that explores our very human impulse to seek and repel intimacy with the people who matter to us most.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsFearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
by Tom Wolfe
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsBased on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
by Dinaw Mengestu
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsA heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.
by Christopher Buckley
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsOne of Americas most hilarious novelists and the bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking returns with a biting comedy about generational warfare.
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...
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsA searing, postapocalyptic novel by the author of the much loved Border Trilogy.
by David Mitchell
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsDavid Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
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