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Joshua Cohen
Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height…
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Louise Erdrich
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winner Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all…
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Colson Whitehead
A devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
Richard Powers
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
Andrew Sean Greer
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, Less is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize…
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, offering a unique perspective on the Vietnam war. Destined to become…
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Anthony Doerr
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War…
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Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a…
Adam Johnson
At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper and spy. How far can Jun Do…
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Jennifer Egan
A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It is about the…
Paul Harding
Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in…
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been…
Junot Diaz
A literary triumph - winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have…
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Geraldine Brooks
Brooks’s luminous second novel, after 2001’s acclaimed Year of Wonders , imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause…
Marilynne Robinson
From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America’s finest writers.
Edward P Jones
In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, this two-time National Book Award finalist tells the story of a black farmer and former slave who falls under the…
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure…
Richard Russo
Miles Roby, a gentle, funny loser, runs the Empire Grill and hopes one day to own it. Meantime, though, his wife has run off with his worst customer, he’s anxious…
Michael Chabon
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York…
Jhumpa Lahiri
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.
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Michael Cunningham
The Hours is a novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
Philip Roth
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father’s factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America…
Steven Millhauser
Tells the story of Martin Dressler’s rise from bellhop to builder of hotels and his plans to build the Grand Cosmo.
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Richard Ford
This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Carol Shields
A beautiful, darkly ironic novel of misunderstanding and missed opportunites. Shields reveals the mysteries of love, culture and spirituality shimmering beneath the surface of a quiet woman’s life.
Annie Proulx
A novel of human life and possibility in which one man, following the dramatic death of his wife, heads for the remotest part of Newfoundland, along with his ‘aunt’ and…
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Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler’s lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and…
Jane Smiley
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A…
