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A Novel
by Kevin Wilson
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Published Oct 2015
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by David Nicholls
Published Jun 2015
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by Kate Racculia
Published Jun 2015
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by Elise Juska
Published May 2015
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by Celeste Ng
Published May 2015
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by Siri Hustvedt
Published Nov 2014
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by Carol Rifka Brunt
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsIn this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them.
by Maria Semple
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
by Richard Ford
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.
by Karen Russell
Published Jul 2011
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by Lev Grossman
Published May 2010
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by David Sedaris
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsSedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface in another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
by Augusten Burroughs
Published Jun 2003
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by George Saunders
Published Jun 2001
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