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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
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The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more)

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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
Staff Pick
DeLillo's eleventh novel is a masterwork of language, character, vision, and story. Rarely does a book of this proportion succeed completely on every level, but from the cinematic opening in Ebbets Field on the afternoon of Bobby Thomson's legendary... (read more)

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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
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Every autumn, men and women across the country undertake a quintessential American tradition: deer hunting. The pinnacle of a hunter's quest is killing a buck with antlers that “score” in the Boone and Crockett record book. Whitetail... (read more)

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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
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The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake
by Elissa Minor Rust
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Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories (98 Edition)
by Aimee Bender
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
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March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
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Breaking Clean
by Judy Blunt
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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