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A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
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by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsA timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.
by Joshilyn Jackson
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsWith empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.
by Alain de Botton
Published Jun 2017
Read Reviews"An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.
by Anne Tyler
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsBrimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler's work, a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity.
by Matthew Thomas
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsEpic in scope, heroic in character, and masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a multigenerational portrait of the Irish American Leary family.
by Daniel Levine
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster's perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain.
by Nell Zink
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again; but it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is.
by Richard Powers
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThe National Book Awardwinning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsVásquez is "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature," according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing - and will take his literary star - even higher
by Jonathan Miles
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With a satirist's eye and a romantic's heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess.
by Tanis Rideout
Published Feb 2014
Read Reviews"Tell me the story of Everest," she said, a fervent smile sweeping across her face, creasing the corners of her eyes. "Tell me about this mountain that's stealing you away from me."
by Gaute Heivoll
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsAn international literary sensation about an arsonist on the loose in rural Norway and the young man haunted by the story.
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.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.
by Joshua Ferris
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsWhat drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.
by Elizabeth Strout
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
by Roberto Bolano
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsNew Years Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the ...
by Claire Messud
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their wayand notin New York City.
by David Mitchell
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsDavid Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
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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