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by Michael Chabon
Staff Pick
The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more)

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by Karen Thompson Walker
Staff Pick
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Water for Elephants
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
Staff Pick
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
by Ray Bradbury
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Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
by Sherman Alexie
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The Help
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
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One of the best works of contemporary literature. This rare work of fiction by Roy is a gem. Her intensity and intellect are felt in both her nonfiction and in her fiction.... (read more)

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
Staff Pick
It really is as good as you've heard it is, and if you haven't heard someone raving about it, let me be that person. A member of that burgeoning category of book that declines to be easily identifiable as either a novel or book of short stories, The... (read more)

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