The Echo Maker
By: Richard Powers
4.83
Format: 368 pages,
Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerg…
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1. The News from Paraguay
By: Lily Tuck
3.05
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his court… read more
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2. Killing Time
By: Caleb Carr
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Information flows freely in 2023, but is all--or "any"--of it accurate? Criminal profiler Dr. Gideo… read more
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3. The Echo Maker
By: Richard Powers
4.83
Format: 368 pages,
Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerg… read more
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4. Tree of Smoke
By: Denis Johnson
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet Ame… read more
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5. The Wapshot Chronicle
By: John Cheever , Rick Moody
4.16
Format: None pages,
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be … read more
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6. All New People
By: Anne Lamott
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that sh… read more
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7. Heroic Measures
By: Jill Ciment
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Tattoo Artist comes a new novel--taut, moving, accomplished--set in a fraugh… read more
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8. Spares
By: Michael Marshall Smith
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing … read more
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9. Trajectory
By: Richard Russo
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates th… read more
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10. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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11. Shadow Country
By: Peter Matthiessen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost… read more
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12. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
13. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
14. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
15. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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16. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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17. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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18. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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19. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
20. The Tree Doctor
By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self Whe… read more
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21. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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