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LITERATURE AND POETRY BOOKS

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Featured Reading Lists

Our Most Anticipated Books for Spring and Summer 2021

    A Little Devil in America

    A Little Devil in America

    by Hanif Abdurraqib
    Animal

    Animal

    by Lisa Taddeo
    Lost in the Never Woods

    Lost in the Never Woods

    by Aiden Thomas
    Mister Impossible

    Mister Impossible

    by Maggie Stiefvater
    Spy Island

    Spy Island

    by Chelsea Cain, et al.

Our Most Anticipated Books for Spring and Summer 2021

    A Little Devil in America

    A Little Devil in America

    by Hanif Abdurraqib
    Animal

    Animal

    by Lisa Taddeo
    Lost in the Never Woods

    Lost in the Never Woods

    by Aiden Thomas
    Mister Impossible

    Mister Impossible

    by Maggie Stiefvater

Best Fiction of 2020

    Deacon King Kong

    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride
    The Vanishing Half

    The Vanishing Half

    by Brit Bennett
    Fracture

    Fracture

    by Andrés Neuman
    Actress

    Actress

    by Anne Enright
    Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind

    by Rumaan Alam

Best Fiction of 2020

    Deacon King Kong

    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride
    The Vanishing Half

    The Vanishing Half

    by Brit Bennett
    Fracture

    Fracture

    by Andrés Neuman
    Actress

    Actress

    by Anne Enright

Around the World: The Finest Fiction in Translation of 2020

    Bluebeard's First Wife

    Bluebeard's First Wife

    by Ha Seong-nan
    Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino

    Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino

    by Julián Herbert
    Hurricane Season

    Hurricane Season

    by Fernanda Melchor
    That Time of Year

    That Time of Year

    by Marie Ndiaye
    The Perfect Nine

    The Perfect Nine

    by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Around the World: The Finest Fiction in Translation of 2020

    Bluebeard's First Wife

    Bluebeard's First Wife

    by Ha Seong-nan
    Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino

    Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino

    by Julián Herbert
    Hurricane Season

    Hurricane Season

    by Fernanda Melchor
    That Time of Year

    That Time of Year

    by Marie Ndiaye

Family Is Family

    On Beauty

    On Beauty

    by Zadie Smith
    The Corrections

    The Corrections

    by Jonathan Franzen
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    by Karen Joy Fowler
    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    The Family Fang

    The Family Fang

    by Kevin Wilson

Family Is Family

    On Beauty

    On Beauty

    by Zadie Smith
    The Corrections

    The Corrections

    by Jonathan Franzen
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    by Karen Joy Fowler
    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Meet You on the Fictional Quad: 10 Campus Novels

    Real Life

    Real Life

    by Brandon Taylor
    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    by Elif Batuman
    Chemistry

    Chemistry

    by Weike Wang
    The Secret History

    The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt
    Transcendent Kingdom

    Transcendent Kingdom

    by Yaa Gyasi

Meet You on the Fictional Quad: 10 Campus Novels

    Real Life

    Real Life

    by Brandon Taylor
    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    by Elif Batuman
    Chemistry

    Chemistry

    by Weike Wang
    The Secret History

    The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt

10 Short Story Collections for Short Attention Spans

    Grand Union

    Grand Union

    by Zadie Smith
    Sing to It

    Sing to It

    by Amy Hempel
    Your Duck Is My Duck

    Your Duck Is My Duck

    by Deborah Eisenberg
    Tenth of December

    Tenth of December

    by George Saunders
    Florida

    Florida

    by Lauren Groff

10 Short Story Collections for Short Attention Spans

    Grand Union

    Grand Union

    by Zadie Smith
    Sing to It

    Sing to It

    by Amy Hempel
    Your Duck Is My Duck

    Your Duck Is My Duck

    by Deborah Eisenberg
    Tenth of December

    Tenth of December

    by George Saunders

Women in Translation

     Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    by Olga Tokarczuk
    The Lying Life of Adults

    The Lying Life of Adults

    by Elena Ferrante
    The Memory Police

    The Memory Police

    by Yoko Ogawa
    The Vegetarian

    The Vegetarian

    by Han Kang
    Little Eyes

    Little Eyes

    by Samanta Schweblin

Women in Translation

     Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    by Olga Tokarczuk
    The Lying Life of Adults

    The Lying Life of Adults

    by Elena Ferrante
    The Memory Police

    The Memory Police

    by Yoko Ogawa
    The Vegetarian

    The Vegetarian

    by Han Kang

Reading Africa

    The Shadow King

    The Shadow King

    by Maaza Mengiste
    A Girl Is a Body of Water

    A Girl Is a Body of Water

    by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    The Death of Vivek Oji

    The Death of Vivek Oji

    by Akwaeke Emezi
    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    by Chinua Achebe
    Out of Darkness, Shining Light

    Out of Darkness, Shining Light

    by Petina Gappah

Reading Africa

    The Shadow King

    The Shadow King

    by Maaza Mengiste
    A Girl Is a Body of Water

    A Girl Is a Body of Water

    by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    The Death of Vivek Oji

    The Death of Vivek Oji

    by Akwaeke Emezi
    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    by Chinua Achebe

2020 Indigenous Authors

    Crooked Hallelujah

    Crooked Hallelujah

    by Kelli Jo Ford
    The Night Watchman

    The Night Watchman

    by Louise Erdrich
    The Only Good Indians

    The Only Good Indians

    by Stephen Graham Jones
    Postcolonial Love Poem

    Postcolonial Love Poem

    by Natalie Diaz
    Empire of Wild

    Empire of Wild

    by Cherie Dimaline

2020 Indigenous Authors

    Crooked Hallelujah

    Crooked Hallelujah

    by Kelli Jo Ford
    The Night Watchman

    The Night Watchman

    by Louise Erdrich
    The Only Good Indians

    The Only Good Indians

    by Stephen Graham Jones
    Postcolonial Love Poem

    Postcolonial Love Poem

    by Natalie Diaz

Unreliable Narrators

    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    by Daphne Du Maurier
    The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day

    by Kazuo Ishiguro
    We Need To Talk About Kevin

    We Need To Talk About Kevin

    by Lionel Shriver
    Lolita

    Lolita

    by Vladimir Nabokov
    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    by Iain Reid

Unreliable Narrators

    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    by Daphne Du Maurier
    The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day

    by Kazuo Ishiguro
    We Need To Talk About Kevin

    We Need To Talk About Kevin

    by Lionel Shriver
    Lolita

    Lolita

    by Vladimir Nabokov

Finding Home: The Immigrant Experience

    How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    by Julia Alvarez
    Exit West

    Exit West

    by Mohsin Hamid
    Across a Hundred Mountains

    Across a Hundred Mountains

    by Reyna Grande
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn

    by Colm Tóibín
    Brick Lane

    Brick Lane

    by Monica Ali

Finding Home: The Immigrant Experience

    How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    by Julia Alvarez
    Exit West

    Exit West

    by Mohsin Hamid
    Across a Hundred Mountains

    Across a Hundred Mountains

    by Reyna Grande
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn

    by Colm Tóibín

Summer Trippin': Psychedelic Lit

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    by Haruki Murakami
    The Pisces

    The Pisces

    by Melissa Broder
    Another Roadside Attraction

    Another Roadside Attraction

    by Tom Robbins
    Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

    Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

    by Tom Wolfe
    Labyrinths

    Labyrinths

    by Jorge Luis Borges

Summer Trippin': Psychedelic Lit

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    by Haruki Murakami
    The Pisces

    The Pisces

    by Melissa Broder
    Another Roadside Attraction

    Another Roadside Attraction

    by Tom Robbins
    Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

    Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

    by Tom Wolfe

Anthropomorphic Animals

    The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    by Mikhail Bulgakov
    Mink River

    Mink River

    by Brian Doyle
    Maus

    Maus

    by Art Spiegelman
    Hollow Kingdom

    Hollow Kingdom

    by Kira Jane Buxton
    Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    by George Orwell

Anthropomorphic Animals

    The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    by Mikhail Bulgakov
    Mink River

    Mink River

    by Brian Doyle
    Maus

    Maus

    by Art Spiegelman
    Hollow Kingdom

    Hollow Kingdom

    by Kira Jane Buxton

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