How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
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Category: Literary Fiction
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close-sometimes too close-observation of her new frie ...Show more
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
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Category: Literary Fiction
'Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page' HILARY MANTEL'Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound'BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Beautiful, biblical, vast in scope and power . . . Hosein is a new, enormous gi ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has bee ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
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Category: Literary Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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Category: Literary Fiction
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Literary Fiction
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' - New York TimesA mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in ...Show more
Strangers at the Port (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Lauren Aimee Curtis
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Category: Literary Fiction
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes. The sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, commu ...Show more
The Book Of Goose by Yiyun Li
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Category: Literary Fiction
'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning autho ...Show more
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé
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Category: Literary Fiction
"French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporaryMartinique. Readers will be transfixed." --Publishers Weekly, starred review A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbea ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Literary Fiction
A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men and The Road.'What a glorious sunset song . . . It's rich and it's strange, ...Show more
The Trackers by Charles Frazier
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Category: Literary Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to creat ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
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Category: Literary Fiction
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more