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  • Meditations for Mortals
    Meditations for Mortals
    Burkeman, Oliver
    A National BestsellerAddressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectl...

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  • Annihilation
    Annihilation
    Houellebecq, Michel
    Michel Houellebecq’s international bestseller— a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence.It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks in which videos of brutal decapitations and...

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  • Intermezzo
    Intermezzo
    Rooney, Sally
    An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family?but especially love?from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties?successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep...

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  • Regarding the Pain of Others
    Regarding the Pain of Others
    Sontag, Susan
    A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture—its ubiquity, meanings, and effects.Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion ar...

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  • The Housekeeper and the Professor
    The Housekeeper and the Professor
    Ogawa, Yoko
    Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young housekeeper, with a ten-year-old s...

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  • Parade
    Parade
    Cusk, Rachel
    From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do.Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the stree...

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  • The Complete Stories
    The Complete Stories
    O'Connor, Flannery
    center>Winner of the National Book AwardFlannery O’Connor’s The Complete Stories is the essential volume for admirers of this master of the short for—now with a foreword by Hilton Als.In these sly, laconic, and fiercely observed works, O’Connor does nothing less than elaborate a unique and new way of seeing the world. Contorting her sharply drawn characters through her Southern...

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  • Call of the Tribe
    Call of the Tribe
    Llosa, Mario Vargas
    The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable “call of the tribe.” This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project.In The Call of the Tribe,...

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  • Amulet
    Amulet
    Bolaño, Roberto / Andrews, Chris
    “An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City.” ?Francisco GoldmanAuxilio Lacouture is the mother of Mexican poetry. Uruguayan by birth, Mexican by destiny, the vagrant poetess serves as guardian, confidant, literary mentor, and occasional lover to a generation of Mexico City’s mad young poets, a fixture in their heady bohemia...

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  • Blackouts
    Blackouts
    Torres, Justin
    Winner of the National Book Award – Winner of the California Book Award – Winner of Tournament of BooksOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass ...

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  • Antwerp
    Antwerp
    Bolaño, Roberto
    “Legendary... Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review“A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New YorkerOften called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years...

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  • Acceptance
    Acceptance
    VanderMeer, Jeff
    The New York Times bestselling third installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s wildly popular Southern Reach Trilogy.It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapse...

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  • Authority
    Authority
    VanderMeer, Jeff
    In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Area X’s most disturbing questions are answered... but the answers are far from reassuring.After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—ha...

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  • Annihilation
    Annihilation
    VanderMeer, Jeff
    The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into ...

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  • God of That Summer, The
    God of That Summer, The
    Rothmann, Ralf
    ‘This book’s power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book is as memorable as his last.’ - The Times, ‘Historical Fiction Book of the Month’As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are forced from their homes by ...

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  • Austral
    Austral
    Fonseca, Carlos
    From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza h...

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  • My Favorite Plant
    My Favorite Plant
    Kincaid, Jamaica
    Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write.Among the contributors are Daniel Hinkley on hellebores; ...

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  • Book of Goose, The
    Book of Goose, The
    Li, Yiyun
    Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLong-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Financial Times, San Francisco Chro...

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  • Dawn of Everything, The
    Dawn of Everything, The
    Graeber, David / Wengrow, David
    For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike, either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challe...

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  • Anatomy of Genres, The
    Anatomy of Genres, The
    Truby, John
    A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and book...

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  • Harsh Times
    Harsh Times
    Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie that will have drastic consequences for the entire region: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration, determined to protect American commercial interests in Central America, that Árbenz encour...

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  • Beautiful World, Where Are You
    Beautiful World, Where Are You
    Rooney, Sally
    Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a breakup, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young?but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each othe...

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  • Second Place
    Second Place
    Cusk, Rachel
    A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself...

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  • Copenhagen Trilogy, The
    Copenhagen Trilogy, The
    Ditlevsen, Tove
    Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit ...

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  • Right to Sex, The
    Right to Sex, The
    Srinivasan, Amia
    How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do, a supposedly private act laden with public meaning, a personal preference shaped by outside forces, a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo, many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt to...

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  • Last Supper, The
    Last Supper, The
    Cusk, Rachel
    A vivid and elegant memoir of a family’s season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy.When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey, chronicled in The Last Supper, leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk’s sharp a...

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  • Corrections, The
    Corrections, The
    Franzen, Jonathan
    After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives.The oldest, Gary, a once--stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself that, ...

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  • A Feather on the Breath of God
    A Feather on the Breath of God
    Nunez, Sigrid
    From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust ExercisesA young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chines...

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  • Pew
    Pew
    Lacey, Catherine
    A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzyIn a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew.As the ...

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  • Life's Work
    Life's Work
    Cusk, Rachel
    A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk’s children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend hersel...

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