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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames
Powells.com Staff Pick Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking...
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick While it was hard to narrow down my list to just five "best of" picks, I didn't have to think twice about what would be my favorite book of the year. In Cloud Atlas Mitchell again uses the format of connecting short stories with recurring motifs into a...
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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into...
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Breakfast At Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
Powells.com Staff Pick This is my author fantasy: me, Truman Capote, a front porch on a summer afternoon that stretches lazily into evening, and of course, mint juleps. I can't think of anyone else whose stories I'd rather hear told. Word for word, measure for...
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Publisher Comments With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the...
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Revenge of the Lawn
by Richard Brautigan Publisher Comments First published in 1971, Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than sixty-two ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston Synopsis This tale of a woman's quest for fulfilment and self-discovery follows the story of Janie whose experiences make her recognize that husbands are just "things to drape her dreams over"....
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis Publisher Comments Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America’s greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – American Psycho is...
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Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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