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Lorrie Moore · 163 pages
The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin · 440 pages
""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now ave
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu · 288 pages
Agaat
Marlene Van Niekerk · 581 pages
Ablutions
Patrick deWitt · 164 pages
Working at a decaying Hollywood bar while making notes for the novel he hopes to write, a bartender is drawn into the alcoholic oblivion that affects his customers, losing his wife, his goals, and himself in the process.
Often I Am Happy
Jens Christian Grondahl · 169 pages
"This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner and Dept. of Speculation. "Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. Ingemann Ellinor is seventy. Her husband Georg has just passed away, and she is struck with the need to confide in someone. She addresses Anna, her long-dead be
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai · 465 pages
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more “A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People "Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review "[An] irresistible literary page-turner." —The Boston Globe The riveting new n
How to Paint a Dead Man
Sarah Hall · 289 pages
From Sarah Hall, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Daughters of the North and The Electric Michelangelo comes the Harper Perennial paperback original novel How to Paint a Dead Man, a daringly imaginative tale in which multiple lives are woven together through the prism of a still life painting. Moving from Italy to England, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of fo
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir · 512 pages
Dear Thief
Samantha Harvey · 267 pages
Dear Thief is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal velnerability that need exposes.
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Junot Diaz · 64 pages
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson · 456 pages
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is giv
Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka · 306 pages
Schroder
Amity Gaige · 304 pages
Ensconced in a correctional facility at the height of a custody battle with his estranged wife, Erik, a first generation East German immigrant who changed his name as a youth, surveys his life to consider the disparity between his original and assumed identities.
All the Broken Places
John Boyne · 400 pages
A Treatise on Shelling Beans
Wieslaw Mysliwski · 376 pages
Winter Birds
Jim Grimsley · 209 pages
On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina along a stretch of rural highway, a dreamy eight-year-old named Danny Crell is caught in the middle of a violent quarrel between his parents. Danny's father, Bobjay Crell, has been at the mercy of doctors, unforgiving landlords, and cruel farm bosses ever since he lost an arm in a farm accident. His subsequent fits of rage and drunken jealousy have ta
The Portrait
Iain Pears · 224 pages
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image, on canvas, it becomes clear that there is much more
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 272 pages
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado · 251 pages
The Incarnations
Susan Barker · 423 pages
"Hailed as "China's Midnight's Children," a gripping new novel about a Beijing taxi driver whose past incarnations haunt him through searing letters sent by his mysterious soulmate"--
Aura
Carlos Fuentes · 74 pages
*Aura* es una novela corta del escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes. La historia está situada en el año 1962 en la Ciudad de México. Esta obra es considerada como una de las más importantes de este novelista y una de las mejores de la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. Fue publicada en México en 1962, mismo año en que se publicó otra popular novela de Fuentes, *La muerte de Artemio Cruz.* Ambas forman p
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid · 228 pages
Dans un pays imaginaire du continent indien, un jeune homme, issu d'un milieu modeste d'agriculteurs, se rend à la ville. Il poursuit des études, trouve l'amour, s'intéresse à la politique, fait fortune dans le conditionnement de bouteilles d'eau avant que la chance ne tourne pour lui.
The Untouchable
John Banville · 410 pages
(From the Hardcover edition) Twenty years after his "retirement," ex-spy Victor Maskell attempts to come to terms with what has happened to his life by embarking on his memoirs. This is the plot which fuels Banville's stunning new novel--a story that goes beyond the mere facts of espionage to penetrate the intricate heart of the spy.