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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
by Michael Chabon  
Powells.com Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control...
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson
Powells.com Staff Pick How we translate our past actions and experiences is at least as important as those actions and experiences themselves. Out Stealing Horses, itself superbly translated from the Norwegian, follows the arc of Trond Sander's life as he reflects during a...
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
by Vendela Vida
Powells.com Staff Pick Let me say first that I read this book because of the title. Much like buying a book for its cover, I was drawn in by the possibility that this poetic directive would yield a satisfying story. I was not disappointed; there's a lot to appreciate here...
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick Being one of the few who didn't care for No Country for Old Men, I couldn't wait to read The Road. It is a spare, fierce novel, more a return to the writing in Outer Dark. It drew me in immediately; I didn't want to put it down, and kept reading until I...
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A Friend of the Earth
by T. C. Boyle
Powells.com Staff Pick The year is 2025 and the earth has pretty much gone to shit. Boyle is humorous enough to make an unseemly world funny, though not bearable. Global warming is a given, the biosphere has collapsed, and most animals are extinct. Told by a once passionate...
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The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick Set in rural Tennessee between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an apocolyptic tale of an orphan, a bootlegger, and various other roustabouts trying to make their way in an unseemly world. To readers of the Border Trilogy: this bleak, violent...
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Suttree
by Cormac Mccarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick I read Suttree twenty years ago and was floored by the writing and the story. It is a poignant tale of a man choosing to live his life as he wants, turning his back on his family and their considerable wealth. Jerome Charyn wrote a review of the book...
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A Spot of Bother: A Novel
by Mark Haddon
Powells.com Staff Pick A second novel as good as the first. The follow-up to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is hilarious, dark, and entirely human. A Spot of Bother is the story of the highly dysfunctional Hall family: George, recently retired and going a bit...
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Sacred Games: A Novel
by Vikram Chandra
Powells.com Staff Pick "Sacred Games is a mammoth book. The size of it almost put me off, but once I started Chandra's third novel I was pulled in and entrenched. The characters reveal themselves slowly within a storyline that keeps turning corners and then backtracks often in...
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The Emigrants
by W G Sebald
Powells.com Staff Pick This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is...
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Dirty Work (06 Edition)
by Brown
Powells.com Staff Pick This is definitely an antiwar novel. It doesn't take long to know things will not turn out well. Over the course of a night and a day in a veterans hospital, Walter and Braiden meet and spend time talking about what they've gone through. It is...
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick The best thing about Denis Johnson's writing is that he never seems to take the easy way out. Some of these nonfiction pieces in this collection are searing and brutal, a few are soul searching, and a couple just plain funny. They made me think about...
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Music of Chance (90 Edition)
by Paul Auster
Powells.com Staff Pick The Music of Chance is a well-crafted story about taking risks — and what can happen if you lose. A driver picks up a hitchhiker and convinces him to go play some poker against two rich eccentrics in Pennsylvania. Things don't go well for the...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a book that still resonates more than 45 years after being published. After reading it again and again, I am still moved by the power and humanity of the story. Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer, is one of those quiet heroes who fights for...
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Lullabies for Little Criminals (P.S.)
by Heather Oneill
Powells.com Staff Pick Baby (her given name) is thirteen with no mother and a heroin-addicted father — not a feel-good kind of storyline. Lullabies for Little Criminals is a humorous and nerve-racking story. I disliked every character in the novel at some point, but O...
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The Lay of the Land: A Novel
by Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick Richard Ford's anti-hero Frank Bascombe has returned, middle-aged, possibly wiser, more cynical, and heading into a Thanksgiving season without his wife, but with other family members that he might not want to see. Ford is a great writer; in The Lay of...
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The Driftless Area
by Tom Drury
Powells.com Staff Pick The Driftless Area is a rather sly, short novel. You need to drift as the characters in the driftless area do. It is not dense, but some events are not straightforward, and I found myself going back to earlier chapters to revisit what had happened and...
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The Turning: New Stories
by Tim Winton
Powells.com Staff Pick Seventeen searing stories with characters that come and go throughout the collection. To me, Winton is at his best in his shorter novels and stories. The Turning is no exception. If you are looking for nice, warm, endearing fiction, this is not a book...
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The Exquisite
by Laird Hunt
Powells.com Staff Pick One review of Hunt's previous novel, Indiana, Indiana, claimed the book could stand some more risk-taking. In The Exquisite, Hunt seems to have taken that to heart. It is an unnerving and slightly spooky tale set in post-9/11 New York. Henry is the...
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Gun, with Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick Science fiction noir, which includes a kangaroo as one of the bad guys,and a sheep as the maid. Of course, these characters act and talk like humans, making for a wry, satirical novel. Lethem always stretches the boundaries between genres, and Gun, with...
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