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Legs Get Led Astray
by Chloe Caldwell
Staff Pick
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Staff Pick
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
Staff Pick
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The Sense of an Ending
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
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Queen of the South
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Staff Pick
This is the most full-blown novel yet from Pérez-Reverte, with a wonderfully drawn main character and a very intriguing plotline. If you've already enjoyed his work you'll be quite pleased with this one.... (read more)

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The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
Staff Pick
As if facing the everyday insecurities and turmoil of adolescence isn't enough, 11-year-old Julia lives within the reality of a post-apocalyptic situation as the earth's rotation begins slowing by measurable degrees each day. Relationships, personal and... (read more)

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by Tina Fey
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by Z. Z. Packer
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I read this whole collection more or less by accident, as I originally only intended on browsing the book. ZZ Packer's style is well-crafted, her writing flawless; and the stories are vivid, almost like stored memories you're only now recalling. It's a... (read more)

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Brothers K (92 Edition)
by David James Duncan
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This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
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When Judd's father dies, he joins his family for a week to observe shivah. Meanwhile, in the face of his wife's affair and a divorce on his horizon, he discovers his wife is pregnant. This doesn't much sound like a funny book, but it truly is. Tropper... (read more)

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Invisible Cities
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In Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan tell stories of the cities they've seen, imagined, dreamt, and remembered. The result is a diaphanous fantasy alternating between mirage and memory, like bridges slipping through river fog, or minarets... (read more)

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Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July
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Is there a creative project Miranda July can't conquer? If you've jealously posed this question before reading her fiction, stay away from the new collection. No One Belongs Here More Than You will only embitter you further. It's not enough for July to... (read more)

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