Independence Day
By: Richard Ford
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
A visionary account of American life--and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated nov…
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1. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
By: John Updike
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-bas… read more
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2. Independence Day
By: Richard Ford
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
A visionary account of American life--and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated nov… read more
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3. Breathing Lessons
By: Anne Tyler
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Breathing Lessonsis the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impe… read more
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4. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more
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5. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
By: Oscar Hijuelos
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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6. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
By: Robert Lewis Taylor
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1958 The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the liv… read more
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7. The Stories of John Cheever
By: John Cheever
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generatio… read more
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8. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
By: Robert Olen Butler
3.68
Format: None pages,
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam … read more
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9. Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
By: John Updike
4.14
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run,John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harr… read more
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10. A Summons to Memphis
By: Peter Taylor
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphisintrod… read more
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11. The Stone Diaries
By: Carol Shields
3.89
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy St… read more
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"From surfeit to loss is a short line."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
12. Humboldt's Gift
By: Saul Bellow
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more
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13. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more
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14. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: None pages,
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more
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15. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
16. Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more
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17. The Risk Pool
By: Richard Russo
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Risk Poolis a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellrais… read more
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18. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
19. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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20. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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21. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more
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"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way no…"-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
