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<<< 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 >>>     sort list by title | author On Beauty Zadie Smith Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town... No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old... Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. The History of Love A Novel Nicole Krauss A book that will keep you reading as you get off the bus and cross the street, pulled along by the beauty of the last few pages. Nicole Krauss weaves the strands of her characters' lives together so deftly that you never notice her hand. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close A Novel Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reasonas the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and... War by Candlelight Stories Daniel Alarcon Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from... The Portable Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable... The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) Paul Auster Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a... The Grapes of Wrath Robert DeMott, John Steinbeck First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature, This Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads... Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English... Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson -- or anyone else -- has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced -- and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well - that she is the only person... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows... Ask the Dust John Fante This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. And take... Gilead A Novel Marilynne Robinson Recommended by Elaine, City Lights Books Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the... <<< 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 >>>