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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>>     sort list by title | author Capital A Novel John Lanchester Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ("an elegant and wonderfully witty writer"—New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It's 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going... The Watch A Novel Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother's body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be... Ready Player One Ernest Cline If you are a geek for 80s popculture taking place in Virtual Reality in the futuretime of 2044, solving videogame mysteries to win the ultimate prize, then this book is for you. I loved it to bytes! —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books All Men Are Liars A Novel Alberto Manguel In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature's inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered. Cubop City Blues A Novel Pablo Medina Not a large book but voluminous and various and well worth reading twice or thrice. Medina's ravishing, sportive anatomy of nostalgia will earn the admiration of fans of that genre's grandmaster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. —Recommended by Matthew The Magician King Lev Grossman The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest that proves that Grossman is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis. Canada A Novel Richard Ford "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm... Radio Iris A Novel Anne-Marie Kinney Radio Iris is the story of Iris Finch, a socially awkward daydreamer with a job as the receptionist/personal assistant to an eccentric and increasingly absent businessman. When Iris is not sitting behind her desk waiting for the phone to ring, she... The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. Home Toni Morrison Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. The Art of Fielding A Novel Chad Harbach At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin The Pale King David Foster Wallace The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. With four previously unpublished scenes... Jonah Man Christopher Narozny Narrated by a one-handed juggler who moonlights as a drug trafficker, a talented young boy who longs to escape the shadow of his abusive father, and a police inspector whose overzealous efforts to solve a murder result in a series of calamitous... Toxicology A Novel Jessica Hagedorn Jessica Hagedorn's edgy and entertaining new novel centers on the lives of two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker of low-budget slasher movies in search of new material. Her neighbor Eleanor Delacroix is a... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>>