Fiction & Literature

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Unsparing Stories…

Stark prose & mordant wit fill these tales of grizzled ranchers, broken cowboys & doomed lovers in the Wyoming backcountry.

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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An Expat's Ennui...

A novel of dispassionate decadence, Hemingway’s roman à clef portrays a sense of ennui that is as relevant today as it was in the Roaring Twenties.

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

Ben Fountain

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A Treasure Trove...

Discover a treasure trove of unimagined possibilities, to be revisited time & time again, inside each story in Fountain’s debut collection.

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

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Dark & Otherworldly...

Not just for the fantasy lover, realists will also relate to this dark & otherworldly criticism of American idolatry & deeply emotional tale of love lost.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon

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An Extraordinary Debut...

This New York Times bestselling debut is an engrossing, skillfully layered coming-of-age story, where the everyday becomes extraordinary.

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel

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Compact & Powerful…

Beloved for their inventiveness, these stories evoke the breadth of human feeling with stunning economy, wit & compassion.

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter

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The Ultimate Love Story...

Tender yet fierce, erotic yet idyllic, Salter's masterful love story reads with the passionate urgency of a fever dream.

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Daddy's Girls

Tasmina Perry

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Slammed: A Novel

Colleen Hoover

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

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The House at Riverton: A Novel

Kate Morton

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Kiss an Angel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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A Walk Among the Tombstones

Lawrence Block

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The Last Good Man: A Novel

A. J. Kazinski , A.j. Kazinski

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Handle with Care: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

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Any Man of Mine

Rachel Gibson

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The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Paulo Coelho

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Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel

K. A. Tucker

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The Kingmaker's Daughter

Philippa Gregory

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This Heart of Mine

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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What I Did for Love: A Novel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Unspoken

Jen Frederick

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The Wife: A Novel

Meg Wolitzer

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Twenty Wishes

Debbie Macomber

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Best Friends Forever: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner

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East of the Sun: A Novel

Júlia Gregson

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The Pact

Jodi Picoult

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The Devil to Pay

Liz Carlyle

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Horns: A Novel

Joe Hill

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Call Me Irresistible: A Novel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Breathing Room

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #2: Blowback, Takedown, The...

Brad Thor

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Lady Be Good

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

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Under the Dome: A Novel

Stephen King

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Perfect Match

Jodi Picoult

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Pandemonium

Lauren Oliver

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Editor's Choice

Beautiful & Compassionate...

Opening with a plane crashing into the sea, Birds in Fall is a beautiful & heartbreaking portrait of mourning, told with a naturalist’s sensitivity to the connections that bind humans, animals & the earth together.

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Spooky Lit

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volumes 1 and 2

Edgar Allan Poe

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

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Dracula

Bram Stoker

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The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition

William Peter Blatty

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

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The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

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Necrophiliac, The

Gabrielle Wittkop

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Escape to Italy

Straight Cut

Madison Smartt Bell

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The Glorious Ones: A Novel

Francine Prose

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Across the River and Into the Trees

Ernest Hemingway

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Georgia's Kitchen

Jenny Nelson

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Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

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Bella Italia: A Thriller

Suzanne Vermeer

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Ardor

Lily Prior

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The Gondola Maker

Laura Morelli

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Made in Italy: Food and Stories

Giorgio Locatelli

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Rosemary and Bitter Oranges: Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen

Patrizia Chen

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All This Talk of Love: A Novel

Christopher Castellani

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How to Love an American Man: A True Story

Kristine Gasbarre

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Novels for Art Lovers

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

Jeffrey Ford

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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo: A Novel

F. G. Haghenbeck

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The Opposite of Art: A Novel

Athol Dickson

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Blue Nude

Elizabeth Rosner

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The Art Thief: A Novel

Noah Charney

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The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

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The Wayward Muse

Elizabeth Hickey

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Stone Arabia: A Novel

Dana Spiotta

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Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

Christopher Moore

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Modern Art: A Novel

Evelyn Toynton

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The Body Artist: A Novel

Don DeLillo

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Girl Reading: A Novel

Katie Ward

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The Dissident

Nell Freudenberger

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Real People: A Novel

Alison Lurie

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Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation

Frederick Rebsamen

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O sol nasce sempre (fiesta) [The Sun Also Rises]

Ernest Hemingway

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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel

Neil Gaiman

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American Gods

Neil Gaiman

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

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Adeus as Armas [A Farewell to Arms]

Ernest Hemingway

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Paulo Coelho

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O Velho e o Mar [The Old Man and the Sea]

Ernest Hemingway

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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

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Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

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Watership Down: A Novel

Richard Adams

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The Shipping News: A Novel

Annie Proulx

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

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The Cider House Rules

John Irving

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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

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The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

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The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

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Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

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Por Quem os Sinos Dobram [For Whom the Bell Tolls]

Ernest Hemingway

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Banned Books

15 books hand-picked by Scribd editorial staff

As long as people have been writing books, other people have been trying to ban, censor & burn them. Fortunately, great writing has a way of outliving the regimes that suppress it. Here are some our favorite, most provocative reads.

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Critically-Acclaimed Debut Novels

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon

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Days Between Stations: A Novel

Steve Erickson

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The Dissident

Nell Freudenberger

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Caribou Island: A Novel

David Vann

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Telex from Cuba: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

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A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Darcy O'Brien

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A Family Daughter: A Novel

Maile Meloy

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A Fortunate Age: A Novel

Joanna Smith Rakoff

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

Ben Fountain

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Edisto: A Novel

Padgett Powell

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The Longshot: A Novel

Katie Kitamura

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The White Tiger: A Novel

Aravind Adiga

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About Grace: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

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The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

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The Gin Closet

Leslie Jamison

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Ruddy Gore

Kerry Greenwood

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Dead Man's Chest

Kerry Greenwood

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Urn Burial

Kerry Greenwood

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The Heat of the Moon

Sandra Parshall

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Death by Water

Kerry Greenwood

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Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal

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Mew is for Murder

Clea Simon

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Forbidden Fruit: A Corinna Chapman Mystery

Kerry Greenwood

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Earthly Delights

Kerry Greenwood

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Unnatural Habits

Kerry Greenwood

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Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death ...

Peter Kreeft

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Murder on a Midsummer Night

Kerry Greenwood

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The Maltese Manuscript

Joanne Dobson

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Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood

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Heavenly Pleasures

Kerry Greenwood

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The Whitefire Crossing

Courtney Schafer

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The Dragon Never Sleeps

Glen Cook

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Wastelands

Adams

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The Trouble with Harriet

Dorothy Cannell

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The Imago Sequence

Laird Barron

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Death Before Wicket

Kerry Greenwood

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Last H...

Clark Ashton Smith

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Sympathy for the Devil

Tim Pratt

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Artifacts

Mary Anna Evans

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Tails of Wonder and Imagination

Ellen Datlow

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage ...

Clark Ashton Smith

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Devil's Food

Kerry Greenwood

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The End Of...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The Maze o...

Clark Ashton Smith

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

John Joseph Adams

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Book Spotlight

Cinema & the 70s

A dark, dreamy book about films & obsession in Los Angeles, this impressive novel by one of today's truly unique literary voices is far from your typical Hollywood story.

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Set in San Francisco

The City, Not Long After

Pat Murphy

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Fairytales: A Novel

Cynthia Freeman

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Half Life

Shelley Jackson

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Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

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The Golden Gate Is Red

Jim Kohlberg

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Valencia

Michelle Tea

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Edge City

Sin Soracco

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Days Between Stations: A Novel

Steve Erickson

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My Dreams Out in the Street: A Novel

Kim Addonizio

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Family Matters

A Short History of Women: A Novel

Kate Walbert

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The Cider House Rules

John Irving

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The Kitchen House: A Novel

Kathleen Grissom

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Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel

Eleanor Henderson

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Lake Overturn: A Novel

Vestal McIntyre

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Model Home: A Novel

Eric Puchner

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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Heidi W. Durrow

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Girl in Shades

Allison Baggio

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Little Bird of Heaven

Joyce Carol Oates

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Sophie's Choice

William Styron

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I Know This Much Is True

Wally Lamb

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A

Rebecca Wells

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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

M. L. Stedman

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

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O Pioneers

Willa Cather

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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

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The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy

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The Maytrees

Annie Dillard

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Editor's Choice

An impassioned choice...

A young woman makes an impassioned choice between two loves in this lesser-known gem by acclaimed French author of Bonjour Tristesse. Then, step inside the mind of the translator in Hofstadter’s fascinating afterword.

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