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Motherless Brooklyn (99 Edition)
by Jonathan Lethem  
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first...
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
Review "In That Uncertain Feeling (1955), one of Kingsley Amis's lesser novels, the narrator, John Lewis, is watching some young women play tennis, and decides to examine himself on an important question: "Why did I like women's breasts so much? I was clear on...
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick This one's somewhat redundant ? I mean, everyone raves about Fight Club. Adding my voice just seems trite. But?it's true?Fight Club was one of the most original novels published in the late '90s. Granted, it suffers from huge quantities of nihilism, but...
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A Passage to India
by E M Forster
Powells.com Staff Pick Ezra Pound said, "Fundamental accuracy of statement is the one sole morality of writing." I think this might be the best novel of cross-cultural misunderstanding written in the English language. On one level, it is pure sensual delight. On...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Twain
Powells.com Staff Pick I hadn't read Huckleberry Finn for more than 20 years, but I'm really glad I picked it up again. In terms of language alone, few writers, living or dead, can match the genius of Mark Twain. Finn is America's only equal to The Odyssey. This traveler's...
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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Kent Haruf
Powells.com Staff Pick This National Book Award finalist is recommended for those who seek the pure beauty of raw human interaction, humility, and grace. Plainsong is the story of human beings struggling to come together as a family. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high...
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No Great Mischief (Vintage International)
by Alistair Macleod
Powells.com Staff Pick regret coming so late to Alistair MacLeod ? this guy can really write! His style and sentences are deceptively simple, and the book itself seems too small to contain all the heart he plows into it. He's been publishing for more than 30 years, but has...
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Midnight in Sicily
by Peter Robb
Publisher Comments In late 1995 Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister of Italy and once called "the finest political mind in Europe," went on trial both for murder and for his association with the Sicilian Mafia. With hundreds of witnesses still to be called, there...
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All the Names
by Jose Saramago
Powells.com Staff Pick "You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns the seemingly...
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An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future
by Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher Comments "Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--"Chicago Tribune <BR>"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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Gob's Grief
by Chris Adrian
Powells.com Staff Pick This story has everything ? Civil War heroics, survivor guilt, social history, the most believable rendition of Walt Whitman ever attempted in a novel, and an ending of 19th-century fantastical proportions I personally found quite refreshing. Truly, it's...
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The Innocent
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick A shrink once told me there's no such thing as an innocent. We're all guilty of some deviance at some level. I like stories where a seeming innocent is put into a situation where his/her naiveté is put to the test, forcing them to reveal sides they...
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
by David W Maurer
Review "[The book is] entertainment for crime literature addicts....a textbook for prospective confidence men." Edward Frank Allen, The New York Times Book Review...
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of the "Italian boy" murder case was fodder for many of the lurid body-snatching tales that later emerged from the pens of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker. This absorbing narrative evokes Fagin and Bill Sykes, the charred alleys,...
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher Comments In 1920, Charles Ponzi raked in millions of dollars by promising people he would double their investments in three months. Only later did anyone realize he was paying old investors with money from new ones, a trick known as robbing Peter to pay Paul...
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The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher Comments His last and greatest work Driven by intense passion, four brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature....
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Learning to Fly
by April Henry
Powells.com Staff Pick "A real page-turner with a great set-up and inventive characters. Henry plants the hook in a very graphic first chapter and never lets go. Her most skillful book to yet." Recommended by Steven...
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Quiet American (73 Edition)
by Graham Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick When Graham Greene first published The Quiet American, it was largely dismissed in this country as anti-American. In 1955, that particular criticism carried substantial weight. When Joseph Mankiewicz made the novel into a film three years later, he...
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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
by Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher Comments Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc...
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