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The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy  
Powells.com Staff Pick Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended...
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Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
Powells.com Staff Pick If you don't read Reacher, you don't know Jack. So, dive headfirst into this taut and brutal tale of hero Jack Reacher — a lone drifter, a trained killer, a man of justice — as he rights wrongs and defends the helpless. It's author Lee...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both...
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Child 44: A Novel
by Tom Rob Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick I stayed up long past my bedtime to get to the end. I get a lot of debut crime/thriller/suspense fiction across my desk, and every book and author is hyped as the next big thing. This is the first one where I think that might be true. Usually, with a...
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Odd Hours
by Dean Koontz
Powells.com Staff Pick Odd Hours continues the story of Dean Koontz's most likeable and quirky character, Odd Thomas, a young man who "sees dead people" as well as a few other spooky things. Koontz is at his best here, introducing several new characters just as quirky as Odd...
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
Powells.com Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too...
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The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman
Powells.com Staff Pick The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun! Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books...
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The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas Preston
Powells.com Staff Pick Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic,...
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The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie
Powells.com Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime. Recommended by Carrie, Powells...
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
Powells.com Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick — the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy...
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The Romanov Prophecy
by Steve Berry
Powells.com Staff Pick Come on — a thriller that reveals shocking, long-hidden secrets about the fate of the Romanovs (and their Svengali, Rasputin)! What's not to love? Recommended by Martin...
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Rules of Deception
by Christopher Reich
Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Reich has improved upon his already quick-paced style to deliver one of the year's finest tension-filled adventures. Not only a pulse-pounding thriller, but also a clever story of international espionage and intrigue, Rules of Deception...
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The Faithful Spy
by Alex Berenson
Powells.com Staff Pick I just got through reading The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson. I started reading it on my lunch, forced myself to work for a few hours, and then hustled home to continue. Kids ate leftovers; dishes went undone; pleasant dinner conversation was cut short...
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The Ruins — and it's worth the wait. The Ruins is brilliantly suspenseful, almost unbearable in places, and shares A Simple Plan's mounting intensity. Smith's premise could lend...
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The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld
Powells.com Staff Pick A perfect thriller for a dark and stormy night. Move over, Holmes and Watson — Jed Rubenfeld's masterful debut features the dynamic duo of Freud and Jung, working together to catch a killer. If that set-up doesn't hook you, just wait until you see...
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
Powells.com Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too...
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The Mission Song
by John le Carre
Powells.com Staff Pick The Mission Song contains all the complexity and conspiracy of a great John le Carré novel, this time with an unusually young and witty narrator, interpreter Bruno Salvo; half-Congolese and well and truly in over his head. Le Carré's...
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A Small Death in Lisbon
by Robert Wilson
Powells.com Staff Pick "Don't pick this book up at night. This is a great leisurely, Sunday afternoon kind of book. Sit down and expect to stay seated for the four hours or so it takes you to race through this thriller. The crime is set in contemporary Lisbon, but the...
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights. Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and an unconditional masterpiece...
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Powells.com Staff Pick Enjoy a great thriller? You will love this relentlessly paced tale. It's full of fascinating historical details about western art, the mystery of the grail, and hidden codes. You won't be able to put it down but you'll want to look up secret societies...
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