Nathan
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
by William Faulkner  
Powells.com Staff Pick Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you are reading it! A family drama with some of the...
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Karen Russell
Powells.com Staff Pick If Flannery O'Connor had somehow become enamored of magical realism, she might have created a short story collection such as this. Russell is evidently entranced by youth, and her various and sundry child characters are brought vividly to life in...
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Gilead (04 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson
Powells.com Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read that has made me actively slow down my reading pace. Every sentence, every word feels purely distilled into its most emotionally resonant core. Robinson's prose conjures up that curious feeling you get...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
Powells.com Staff Pick What begins as an innocent (if quirky) adolescent tale swiftly transforms into an absorbing high school whodunit. If I had to compare it to a few recent films, it manages to come across both as gritty as Brick and as refreshing as Juno, but with a...
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The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
Powells.com Staff Pick A family drama of the highest order, in The Brothers K Duncan creates an intricate web of relationships and events that is fraught with upheaval, yet feels organic. I fell in love with every single character over the course of the novel, and by the end...
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The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann Obrien
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the funniest books I have ever read, but also one of the most profoundly unsettling. This is a story told by a robber/murderer who ends up at a police station and discusses such vital issues as the location of eternity, the earth's sausage shape...
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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
Powells.com Staff Pick You would think that any novel attempting to conflate the best elements of Scrubs, Noah's Ark, and Lord of the Flies would necessarily be too overwrought and/or gimmicky, but this story is intensely compelling from its first pages. Adrian is obviously...
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Beasts of No Nation (P.S.)
by Uzodinma Iweala
Powells.com Staff Pick Told from the perspective of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed West African war zone, Iweala somehow manages to create a strikingly intriguing coming-of-age tale that simultaneously explores some of the darkest moral abysses imaginable. Agu's halting...
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