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by Mohsin Hamid
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by Rob Schmitz
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of China's most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today.
by Deepak Unnikrishnan
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsUntil now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called "guest workers" of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning, mind-altering debut novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs.
by Matthew Desmond
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsFrom Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
by Sunil Yapa
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsThe Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this electrifying debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests.
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsThe much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer; Named a Hot Fall Read by Vogue, Mashable, Vanity Fair, Pop Sugar, Kirkus, Hello Giggles, and Los Angeles Magazine.
by Orhan Pamuk
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsA modern epic of coming of age in a great city, a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years.
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsThe latest masterpieceperceptive, funny, insightful, affectingfrom the Nobel Prizewinning author
by Bill Browder
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsA real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
by Katherine Boo
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
by James Scudamore
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsBy turns darkly humorous and poignant, James Scudamores Booker Prize-nominated novel is a highly original, surprising take on the rags-to-riches story.
by Vikas Swarup
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsQ&A - renamed Slumdog Millionaire after the Oscar-winning film based on the book - is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know, not just about trivia, but about life itself.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsA haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The Beautiful Thing That Heaven Bears in the USA, ...
by Muhammad Yunus
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis autobiography of the world-renowned, visionary economist who came up with a simple but revolutionary solution to end world poverty - micro-credit.
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