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• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

• Night Watch

  Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-

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  Epic, enthralling and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

• Trust

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception.

• The Netanyahus

  An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

  Cohen, Joshua, 1980-

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  Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

• Blackouts

  a Novel

  Torres, Justin, 1980-

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  Inspired by Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pedro Páramo, Voodoo Macbeth, the book at its own center and the woman who created it, oral histories, and many more texts, images, and influences, Justin Torres's Blackouts is a work of fiction that sees…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rabbit Hutch

  a Novel

  Gunty, Tess,

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  Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell of a Book

  or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid

  Mott, Jason,

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  An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author, both incredibly funny and honest, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.

• Interior Chinatown

  a Novel

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

• Trust Exercise

  a Novel

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher.

• The Friend

  Nunez, Sigrid,

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  A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Orbital

  a Novel

  Harvey, Samantha, 1975-

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  Life on our planet as you've never seen it before. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prophet Song

  Lynch, Paul, 1977-

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  The 2023 Booker Prize longlisted Prophet Song spins a terrifying, suspenseful vision of an Ireland careening towards authoritarianism.

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

  a Novel

  Karunatilaka, Shehan,

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  Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Promise

  A Novel

  Galgut, Damon

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  A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.

• Shuggie Bain

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's…Read moreRead more of this annotation