A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut




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A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To... (read more)

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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon




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Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more)

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Away
by Amy Bloom




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Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life. Recommended by Tessa,... (read more)

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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith


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A multi-generational comic saga in the vein of her million bestseller "White Teeth". Howard is an English scholar teaching in America, who feels dismayed by his past and has no plans for the future. Then his oldest son falls for the stunning daughter of... (read more)

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Harvesting the Heart
by Jodi Picoult


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Jodi Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing... (read more)

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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer




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You may know Stephenie Meyer's name due to her wildly successful young adult vampire series, The Twilight Saga. She takes a break from that with her latest, The Host; touted as her first book for "adults," it's a fun science fiction novel, with just a... (read more)

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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway




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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... (read more)

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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles




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A novel of unrest among 16-year-olds in a boy's school at theopening of WorldWar II.... (read more)

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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell




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While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a... (read more)

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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel


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Mass market edition of Martel's Booker-winner which looks set to be a huge seller for the Edinburgh-based independent publisher, and for the rest of us. A spellbinding allegory with a wrenching literary twist - this is a modern classic in the making. "A... (read more)

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The Great Gatsby
by F Scott Fitzgerald


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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James... (read more)

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Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult


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A riveting drama of ordinary people under pressure from the "Richard & Judy Book Club" bestselling author Jodi Piccoult. Former teacher Jack St. Bride is trying to rebuild his life after an eight-month jail sentence due to a child's accusations in... (read more)

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Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie




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Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until... (read more)

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Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult


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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past — a past she didn't even know she had — catches up to... (read more)

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safra Foer


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Wildly inventive and moving follow-up to the acclaimed and award-winning "Everything Is Illuminated". When nine-year-old Oskar's father is killed in the September 11th attacks, he begins a journey through five boroughs of New York as he attempts to solve... (read more)

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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller




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If your only experience with Catch-22 was reading it for a class in high school — or if you haven't even read it at all — you owe it to yourself to revisit this book. It's a comic masterpiece, yes, but more than that: Catch-22 is a blast of... (read more)

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Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult


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How far would or should a mother go to protect her child? That is the issue at the heart of Jodi Picoult's compelling novel, now available in a new edition.... (read more)

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco




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Umberto Eco's new novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, concerns Yambo, a rare book dealer who's lost his experiential memory — he can remember languages, how to drive a car, and endless quotations from books he's read and loved, but not... (read more)

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