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A Novel
by Hari Kunzru
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by J. Nicole Jones
Published May 2025
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by David Hopen
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsA commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself.
by Louisa Hall
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsA thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence - illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.
by John Vaillant
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable, page-turning survival story recounted by Hector, a man trappedperhaps fatallyinside a tanker truck during an illegal border crossing.
The Explanation for Everything
by Lauren Grodstein
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsThe Explanation for Everything explores humankind's insatiable search for meaning, the risks and rewards of faith, and the salvation that love can offer us all.
by Joy Harjo
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet.
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.
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsBursting with energy, this big-hearted, soulful, and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's uncanny capacity to mend and become whole again.
by Alex Shakar
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsDo you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting?
by Scarlett Thomas
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsSmart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.
by David J. Halperin
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel set in the sixties about a boy's emotional and fantastical journey through alien worlds and family pain.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
by Rebecca Goldstein
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating novel about the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.
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