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Published Oct 2026
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by Miranda July
Published May 2025
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Mar 2022
A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.
by Sigrid Nunez
Published Sep 2021
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship.
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Published Dec 2017
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
by Mary Costello
Published Apr 2016
A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer.
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published May 2015
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Jul 2010
A hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of Americas dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
by Carol Shields
Published May 2003
A harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing.
by Lorrie Moore
Published Sep 1999
Explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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