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by Nina Sankovitch

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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers


How to Live or A Life of Montaigne
by Sarah Bakewell


The Thousand Autumns
of Jacob de Zoet

by David Mitchell



The Hearts of Horses
by Molly Gloss


Unbroken:

A World War II Story of
Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand



War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

The Widower's Tale
by Julia Glass

Limassol
by Yishai Sarid


The Vera Wright Trilogy
by Elizabeth Jolley


Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann

The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Three Days Before the Shooting,
The Unfinished Second Novel

by Ralph Ellison

Where Is She Now?
 by Frances Gilbert

The Price of Silence
by Camilla Trinchieri

Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli


The Night Bookmobile 
by Audrey Niffenegger

       

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
by Walter Mosley


Diary of a Djinn
by Gini Alhadeff


Bad Marie
by Marcy Dermansky

You Had Me at Woof
by Julie Klam


Push
by Sapphire

To the End of the Land
by David Grossman

God on the Rocks
by Jane Gardam

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey


Bound
by Antonya Nelson


The Companion
by Lorcan Roche


Room: A Novel
by Emma Donoghue


A Novel Bookstore
by Laurence Cossé


Invisible
by Paul Auster

One Amazing Thing
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old Filth
by Jane Gardam

Last Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb


Stiltsville
by Susanna Daniel


97 Orchard Street
by Jane Ziegelman


Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys


Beneath the Lion's Gaze
by Maaza Mengiste


The Book of Right and Wrong
by Matt Debenham



Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese


Sacrifice
by S. J. Bolton


Nothing Right
by Antonya Nelson


The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot


The Homecoming Party
by Carmine Abate


Shadow Tag
by Louise Erdrich

In Search of England
by H.V. Morton


The Lotus Eaters
by Tatjana Soli


The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman


Awakening
by S.J. Bolton


Burning Bright
by Ron Rash


Impatient with Desire
by Gabrielle Burton


The Girl with the Golden Shoes
by Colin Channer


Cancer Vixen
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto


The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom


Spooner
by Pete Dexter


How to Paint a Dead Man
by Sarah Hall


The Laws of Evening
by Mary Yukari Waters


The Calling
by Mary Gray Hughes


The Tomb in Seville
by Norman Lewis


The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery

Hannah Coulter
by Wendell Berry


A Terrible Splendor
 
by Marshall Jon Fisher


For Grace Received
by Valeria Parrella


Last Night at the Lobster
by Stewart O'Nan
   

The Moon Opera
by Bi Feiyu
             

Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan


Crow Planet
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt






Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel


Hold Love Strong
by Matthew Aaron Goodman


The Darts of Cupid
by Edith Templeton


Salvation and Other Disasters
by Josip Novakovich   


The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike


Cheese
by Willem Elsschot


Nocturnes
by Kazuo Ishiguro


The Tempest Tales
by Walter Mosley

The Samurai's Garden
by Gail Tsukiyama



Ruins
by Achy Obejas


The Peregrine
by J.A. Baker


Bombay Time
by Thrity Umrigar


The Plated City
by Bliss Perry


 Stitches
by David Small


Little Bee
by Chris Cleave


The Book of Chameleons
by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Alice Fantastic
by Maggie Estep


Onitsha
 by J.M.G. Le Clezio


Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin



The Nick Adams Stories  
by Ernest Hemingway

One Foot in Eden
by Ron Rash


In the Meantime
by Robin Lippincott


The Man in the Picture
by Susan Hill



Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathaniel West


The Forged Coupon
by Leo Tolstoy


The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe


Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates


The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder


Beauty Salon
by Mario Bellatin


Somewhere Towards the End
by Diana Athill


The House Beautiful
by Allison Burnet
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The Sin Eater
by Alice Thomas Ellis


Female Trouble
by Antonya Nelson


In the Woods
by Tana French

The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton


The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford



The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinksi

The Master of Petersburg
by J.M. Coetzee

Payback
by Margaret Atwood


Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe


The Fall
by Albert Camus


A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines


The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman


The Brief Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao   

by Junot Diaz


The Joys of Motherhood
by Buchi Emecheta

Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster


Walk the Blue Fields
by Claire Keegan


Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones

The Emperor's Tomb
by Joseph Roth


The Crying of Lot 49 
by Thomas Pynchon


The Curriculum Vitae
of Aurora Ortiz
by Almudena Solana


The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
by Charles Dickens


The Three of Us
by Julia Blackburn


Under the Frangipani
by Mia Couto

The Emigrants
by WG Sebald

A History of Love
by Nicole Krauss


The Pursuit of Love
by Nancy Mitford
       

The Howling Miller
by Arto Paasalinna


A Hope in the Unseen
by Ron Suskind
            

The German Mujahid
by Boualem Sansal


The Open Door 
by Elizabeth Maguire



The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard


Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler


The Love of the Last Tycoon
by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates


Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow


Indignation
by Philip Roth


To Siberia
by Per Petterson


The Assault
by Harry Mulisch

To Siberia
by Per Petterson


Revelation
by C. J. Sansom

Algren at Sea
by Nelson Algren


A Mercy
by Toni Morrison


Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling


Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto

By Chance 
by Martin Corrick

A Smile of Fortune
by Joseph Conrad


The Body Artist
by Don Dellilo 



The Sun Field
by Heywood Braun


The English Major
by Jim Harrison


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglas


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