How to Breathe Underwater
By: Julie Orringer
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old an…
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1. Honored Guest
By: Joy Williams
3.95
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways–comic, tragi… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- short stories
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- contemporary
2. My Life in Orange
By: Tim Guest
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the n… read more
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3. Marathon Man
By: William Goldman
4.11
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and acad… read more
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"Is it safe?"-William Goldman, Marathon Man
"It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time."-William Goldman, Marathon Man
4. Fen
By: Daisy Johnson
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."-Daisy Johnson, Fen
"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"-Daisy Johnson, Fen
5. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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- contemporary
6. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
By: Gore Vidal
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Like his National Book Award--winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, T… read more
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- literature
7. Babe: The Gallant Pig
By: Dick King-Smith , Maggie Kneen
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Knopf is proud to present a handsome 20th-anniversary edition of Dick King-Smith's bestselling nove… read more
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- fiction
8. How to Breathe Underwater
By: Julie Orringer
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old an… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
- literature
- young adult
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
9. The Little Match Girl
By: Hans Christian Andersen , Rachel Isadora
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brie… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. Eloise
By: Hilary Knight , Kay Thompson
4.01
Format: 204 pages,
"I am Eloise, I am six." So begins the well-loved story of Eloise, the garrulous little girl who li… read more
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11. How the Light Gets In
By: M.J. Hyland
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contra… read more
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12. The Polysyllabic Spree
By: Nick Hornby
4.50
Format: 60 pages,
The Polysyllabic Spree is the first title in the Believer Book series, which collects essays by and… read more
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13. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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14. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
By: Z.Z. Packer
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Chosen by John Updike as a Today ShowBook Club Pick.Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now … read more
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15. By His Bootstraps
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.83
Format: 373 pages,
"By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of … read more
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16. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.94
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigatin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
17. Property
By: Valerie Martin
3.69
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if a…"-Valerie Martin, Property
18. Big Time
By: Ben H. Winters
3.43
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Ben Winters, whom critics attest "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more
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- fiction
19. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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- contemporary
"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
20. Ilium
By: Lea Carpenter
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more
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