Contemporary

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    by Tom McCarthy

    The first and last word on the world–modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in…

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    by John Updike

    On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York.

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    by Nick Hornby

    ‘There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.’

     

     

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    by A.D. Miller

    An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Parkand The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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    by Michael Thomas Ford

    Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between “normal” and the rest of us.
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    The Hundred-Year-Old Man #1

    by Jonas Jonasson, Rod Bradbury (Translator)

    Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun and feel-good book for all ages.

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    by Michael Chabon

    Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic – from the author of ‘Wonder Boys’.
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    by Lisa Williamson

    An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other.
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    by Martin Latham

    Part cultural history, part literary love letter, and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books.

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    by Marian Keyes

    The Break isn’t a story about falling in love but about staying in love. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best.

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    by J.D. Salinger

    It’s Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school…

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    by Niccolò Ammaniti, Jonathan Hunt (translator)

    From Niccolò Ammaniti comes a novel set in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world, and their own inner demons.

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    by Neil Hilborn

    Neil Hilborn’s highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find comfort in hard nights and better days.

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    by Arundhati Roy

    The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.
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    by Jonathan Coe

    Winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger, The House of Sleep is an intensely moving and frequently hilarious novel about love, obsession and sleep.

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    by Marina Keegan, Anne Fadiman (Introduction)

    An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.

     

     

     

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    by Jodi Picoult

    In this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent’s worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?

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    by Stephen Chbosky

    The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood.

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    by Sara Nisha Adams

    A faded list.
    Nine favourite stories.
    For two strangers, friendship is only a page away . . .

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    by Graeme Simsion

    An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.

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    by Paul Beatty

    A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.

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    by Audrey Niffenegger

    A story of fate, hope and belief, and more than that, it’s about the power of love to endure beyond the bounds of time.

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    by Catherine Chanter

    From the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a brilliantly haunting and suspenseful debut set in modern-day Britain where water is running out everywhere except at The Well; the farm of one seemingly ordinary family whose mysterious good fortune leads to suspicion, chaos, and ultimately a shocking act of violence

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    Paula Spencer #1

    by Roddy Doyle

    From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.

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    by Tommy Orange

    Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.

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    by Jonathan Tropper

    Judd Foxman has the life he always thought he’d have. Good job, loving wife and a perfect house in the suburbs. That is, until he arrives home to find his wife in bed with his boss.

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    by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator)

    Two stellar creators redefine the teen graphic novel. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, the team behind Skim, have collaborated on this gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about a girl on the cusp of her teen age—a story of renewal and revelation.

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    by Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)

    In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.

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    by John Updike

    It is the year 2020. America has recently experienced a war with China, and social chaos and protection-racketeering prevail.

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    by Celia Laskey

    When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.

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    by Jen Campbell

    This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top “Weird Things” from bookshops around the world.

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    by Maria Semple

    A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and “divinely funny” novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

     

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    by Iain Banks

    A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing…

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    by Christopher Kenworthy

    A collection of intense, mood-laden stories that explore the vulnerable underbelly of human emotion.