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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author 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. A Student of History Nina Revoyr A Student of History explores both the beginnings of Los Angeles and the present-day dynamics of race and class. It offers a window into the usually hidden world of high society, and the influence of historic families on current events. Like Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby, it features, in Rick Nagano, a young man of modest means who is nav Minutes of Glory and Other Stories Ngugi wa Thiong'o A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time". Dead Men's Trousers The Grand Finale of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won't survive. It’s an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew. Negrophobia An Urban Parable Darius James Darius James's scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. 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 Southern Nights Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face Barry Gifford A collection of three of Gifford's wildest and weirdest Southern gothic novels. 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 ). 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>