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10 Best Cheese-Free Love Stories

FICTION

SKIPPY DIES

by Paul Murray

Long and impossibly involved, but also beautifully written, with much truth and not a wasted word. A superb imagining of a... Full review >

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ROMANCE

MARY AND O’NEIL

by Justin Cronin

A quiet debut, its very understatement giving rise to its poignancy and strength. Full review >

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FICTION

FINGERSMITH

by Sarah Waters

Nobody writing today surpasses the precocious Waters’s virtuosic handling of narrative complexity and thickly textured... Full review >

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FICTION

THE MARRIAGE PLOT

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Dazzling work—Eugenides continues to show that he is one of the finest of contemporary novelists. Full review >

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FICTION

GILEAD

by Marilynne Robinson

Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and... Full review >

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FICTION

NORWEGIAN WOOD

by Haruki Murakami & translated by Jay Rubin

A contemporary equivalent of This Side of Paradise or Vile Bodies, and another solid building-block in one of contemporary... Full review >

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