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11/22/63

The author turns from nightmares to a dream of time-travel and its consequences.

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White Truffles in Winter

An opulent novel based on the life of Auguste Escoffier, the "king of chefs and chef of kings."

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Mrs. Nixon

Can the novelist’s art unwrap an enigmatic First Lady?

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Parallel Stories

An enormous novel captures decades of Hungarian history.

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Nanjing Requiem

A writer of unerring humanity revisits one of the most brutal episodes of WWII.

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Ghost Lights

A lonely man finds salvation by assuming the unlikely role of rescuer.

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Lamb

A middle-aged man, unraveling after his father's death, forms a strange relationship with an eleven-year-old girl.

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The Sense of an Ending

The Man Booker Prize-winning novel revolves around an unreliable narrator confronting secrets from his past.

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1Q84

The epic story of a young woman who slips between realities.

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Crossbones

Two brothers enter the war-torn expanse of Somalia in search of answers.

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Zone One

A new novel about the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse.

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The Marriage Plot

The new novel from the author of Middlesex combines Victorian concerns with postmodern play.

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The Great Leader

On the trail of a sex offender, one aging detective must confront his own appetites.

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The Barbarian Nurseries

A vibrant novel that captures the tumult of Los Angeles in one maid's search for answers.

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The Stranger's Child

The author of The Line of Beauty turns to the Great War and the myth of the poet-soldier.

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Luminous Airplanes

A new novel extends its narrator's search, heading off the page and into the digital wilds.

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The Cat's Table

The story of one boy's nautical journey blurs the line between autobiography and invention.

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When She Woke

A novelist imagines a brave new world of religious crimes—and color-coded punishment.

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Lost Memory of Skin

The author of The Sweet Hereafter and Cloudsplitter tells the story of an American outcast.

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River of Smoke

The Opium Wars bring new trials—and fresh adventures—to the cast of characters introduced in the rollicking Sea of Poppies.

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Last Man in Tower

The Booker Prize-winning author tells the story of a Mumbai apartment building where all the residents want to sell—except one.

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A Man of Parts

A fictional portrait of H.G. Wells reveals a thinker whose exploits on paper were rivalled by his exploits in the bedroom.

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The Night Circus

An immersive traveling performance and a duel between secretive enchanters combine in this tale of dreamlike suspense.

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You Deserve Nothing

A teacher devoted to his students becomes the object of more than academic interest.

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The Foreigners

Two women with dreams of renewal arrive in a Buenos Aires teetering on the brink of disaster.

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Train Dreams

The author of Tree of Smoke follows a railroad man's journey through a mythic America.

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Starting from Happy

Two people try to find love together despite themselves.

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Tove Jansson's Art of Play

A sly -- and sometimes dark -- bohemianism infuses the grown-up fiction of the Moomintroll creator.

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The Submission

A committee's choice rocks a city in a novel that confronts questions of grief and the ownership of memory.

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House of Holes: A Book of Raunch

From the author of The Fermata, a headlong dive into surreal sexual hijinks.

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May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia. 

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.