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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Wild Milk Sabrina Orah Mark Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it's like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read. 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. The Testaments Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. The Nickel Boys A Novel Colson Whitehead In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A Novel Ocean Vuong Written as a son's letter to his mother who cannot read, this novel is raw and achingly beautiful. Vuong’s writing is both visceral and sublime with lines that will render you awestruck. – Andy The Hanging on Union Square H. T. Tsiang, Floyd Cheung A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice. ––Recommended by Paul East Goes West Younghill Kang "A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature. ––Recommended by Paul America Is in the Heart Carlos Bulosan A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo –– Recommended by Paul Lot Stories In the city of Houston – a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America – the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys. - Recommended by Paul Tears of the Trufflepig A Novel Fernando A. Flores One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best New Books of May. ––Recommended by Paul Lanny A Novel Max Porter "Max Porter does damaged psyche well. . . . Porter's winning new novel, Lanny, despair and unsettling entities are again on the menu, as are hard-won grace and beauty."—New York Times Book Review - Recommended by Paul 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>