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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Here Come the Dogs A Novel In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds—one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure—are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm, a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. Fat City A Novel Leonard Gardner Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. A Brief History of Seven Killings A Novel Marlon James Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope. The Story of the Lost Child The Fourth and Final Neapolitan Novel Elena Ferrante "Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third book in the series, was an international best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Dear Committee Members A Novel Julie Schumacher Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. Lost Children Archive A novel Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive is a novel about archiving all that we don't want to lose. Luiselli looks into the American present as well as its history: into Native American history, and the many intersections between American and Mexican history that are and have always been there. This is the perfect American road trip novel for right now. —Tommy Orange Largesse of the Sea Maiden Stories Denis Johnson A bewitching epitaph. Nobody reported from the haunted depths of American life quite like Johnson. - Recommended by Michael Hazards of Time Travel Joyce Carol Oates An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates Evening in Paradise More Stories Lucia Berlin A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. All That Is Evident Is Suspect Readings from the Oulipo, 1963 - 2018 Daniel Levin Becker, Ian Monk The first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the famous Oulipo in its historical and contemporary incarnations, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ). Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84, a tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby. Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. John Woman Walter Mosley From the award-winning Walter Mosley comes a dazzling novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish A Novel Gender and power dynamics spasm and ripple out of control in the most intimate spaces and, simultaneously, in a broader American context, framed by the 1960's student movements and the New York art scene of the 1990's. --Recommended by Ivy A River of Stars A Novel Vanessa Hua In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>