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by Gabrielle Zevin
Published Jun 2024
Read ReviewsIn this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends - often in love, but never lovers - come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
by Anthony Marra
Published Jun 2023
Read ReviewsThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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 Michael Zapata
Published Jul 2021
Read ReviewsThe mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans.
by Brendan Mathews
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsThree brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar New York.
by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsA funny, heartbreaking novel of friendship, art, and trauma, The Animators is about the secrets we keep and the burdens we shed on the road to adulthood.
The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb
by Nicholas Rinaldi
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn irresistible novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and based on the real life of Tom Thumb, a young man only twenty-five inches tall.
by Donna Tartt
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsComposed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel from one of our finest writersan epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
by Michael Chabon
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsTelegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
by Karen Russell
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.
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 Barbara Kingsolver
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsIn her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.
by Glen David Gold
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsA novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.
by Adam Langer
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsPoignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is a novel about two generations of family and friendship; set in Chicago, from November 1979 through January 1981.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2004
Read Reviews'A vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn...prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks.'
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
by Richard Russo
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsWith all the vision, grace and humanity of truly epic storytelling Russo extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
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