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THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HERby Junot Díaz
Not as ambitious as Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), but sharply observed and... Full review >
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A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KINGby Dave Eggers
Even so, Eggers’ fiction has evolved in the past decade. This book is firm proof that social concerns can make for resonant... Full review >
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THE ROUND HOUSEThis second novel in a planned trilogy lacks the breadth and richness of Erdrich at her best, but middling Erdrich is still... Full review >
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BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALKby Ben Fountain
War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. Full review >
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THE YELLOW BIRDSby Kevin Powers
Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. Full review >
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IRON CURTAINA dark but hopeful chronicle that shows how even humanity’s worst can fracture and fall. Full review >
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BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERSThe best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition. Full review >
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THE BOY KINGS OF TEXASA finely detailed, sentimental family scrapbook inscribed with love. Full review >
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HOUSE OF STONEA complicated, elegiac, beautiful attempt to reconcile the physical bayt (home) and the spiritual. Full review >
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GOBLIN SECRETSThe result is wryly humorous and bearably yet excitingly menacing: Even while much is left unexplained, Rownie’s triumph is... Full review >
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OUT OF REACHby Carrie Arcos
The final pages offer a hopeful conclusion to Rachel’s even bigger search—for herself. Full review >
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NEVER FALL DOWNThough it lacks references or suggestions for further reading, Arn's agonizing story is compelling enough that many readers... Full review >
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BOMBA superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world. Full review >
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