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Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
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Smoke
by Dan Vyleta
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Midnight at the Electric
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
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Night of the Animals
by Bill Broun
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The Book of Joan
by Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
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All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
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The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
by John Pipkin
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Gold Fame Citrus
by Claire Vaye Watkins
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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
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The Senility of Vladimir P.
by Michael Honig
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
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Slade House
by David Mitchell
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat
by Helen Phillips
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Speak
by Louisa Hall
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The Blondes
by Emily Schultz
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The Library at Mount Char
by Scott Hawkins
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Your Face in Mine
by Jess Row
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California
by Edan Lepucki
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The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
by Michel Faber
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
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The Gracekeepers
by Kirsty Logan
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The Bees
by Laline Paull
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Black Moon
by Kenneth Calhoun
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The Afrika Reich
by Guy Saville
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I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
by Terry Hayes
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Dominion
by C.J. Sansom
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On Such a Full Sea
by Chang-rae Lee
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
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The Book of Heaven
by Patricia Storace
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The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church

In the spirit of The Aviator's Wife, this resonant debut spans from World War II through the Vietnam War.

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