Pulitzer Prize Winner
by Shirley Ann Grau

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by Daniel Mason
Published Oct 2024
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
by Ann Leary
Published Apr 2023
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution - one as an employee; the other, an inmate.
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Published Jan 2019
The Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement - a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.
by Laura McHugh
Published May 2017
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman's return to her childhood homeand her encounter with the memories and secrets it holds
by E.C. Osondu
Published Feb 2016
A vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary African family and the house that holds them together.
by Jane Smiley
Published Jul 2015
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a powerful, engrossing new novel - the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America
by Andrea Gillies
Published Oct 2011
Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
by Cheryl Mendelson
Published Apr 2005
A readable explanation for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts
by Austin Clarke
Published Jun 2004
Set in the period following World War II, The Polished Hoe unravels over the course of twenty-four hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society characterized by slavery.
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Published Mar 2000
A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.
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