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Mars: Stories by Asja Bakić
2019
Exposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel
2019
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
2019
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
2019
Optic Nerve by María Gainza
2019
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
2019
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
2019
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
2019
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
2019
From the Shadows by Juan José Millás
2019
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
2019
Black Forest by Valerie Mrejen
2019
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
2019
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
2019
The Need by Helen Phillips
2019
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
2019
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories by Rion Amilcar Scott
2019
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
2019
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
2019
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
2019
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
2019
The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong
2019
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
2019
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2018
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
2018
Census by Jesse Ball
2018
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
2018
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
2018
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
2018
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
2018
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson
2018
OK, Mr. Field by Katharine Kilalea
2018
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
2018
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
2018
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy
2018
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
2018
Circe by Madeline Miller
2018
The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima
2018
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
2018
The Extinction of Menai by Chuma Nwokolo
2018
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
2018
There There by Tommy Orange
2018
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
2018
The Governesses by Anne Serre
2018
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
2018
Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić
2018
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
2018
The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke
2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
2017
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
2017
Marlena by Julie Buntin
2017
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
2017
The Locals by Jonathan Dee
2017
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
2017
Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin
2017
Motherest: A Novel by Kristen Iskandrian
2017
I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
2017
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
2017
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
2017
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
2017
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
2017
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
2017
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
2017
Augustown by Kei Miller
2017
A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro
2017
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
2017
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
2017
For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi
2017
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
2017
The Mountain by Paul Yoon
2017
Nine Island by Jane Alison
2016
One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michele Audin
2016
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
2016
The Girls by Emma Cline
2016
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories by Kathleen Collins
2016
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
2016
Zero K by Don DeLillo
2016
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
2016
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
2016
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
2016
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2016
Mischling by Affinity Konar
2016
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
2016
The Golden Age by Joan London
2016
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
2016
The Gardens of Consolation by Parisa Reza
2016
The Cosmopolitans by Sarah Schulman
2016
The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
2016
Problems by Jade Sharma
2016
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
2016
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
2015
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
2015
The State We're In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie
2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
2015
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
2015
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
2015
The Green Road by Anne Enright
2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
2015
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
2015
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
2015
Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes
2015
Calf: A Novel by Andrea Kleine
2015
Imperium by Christian Kracht
2015
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
2015
American Meteor by Norman Lock
2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
2015
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra
2015
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
2015
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
2015
Crow Fair: Stories by Thomas McGuane
2015
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2015
The Wall: A Novel by H. G. Adler
2014
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
2014
The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
2014
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño
2014
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
2014
The Antiquarian by Gustavo (ed.) Faverón Patriau
2014
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
2014
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2014
Euphoria by Lily King
2014
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
2014
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
2014
The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
2014
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2014
Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
2014
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
2014
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
2014
This is the Water by Yannick Murphy
2014
Karate Chop: Stories by Dorthe Nors
2014
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
2014
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
2014
We are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
2014
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
2014
The Hare by César Aira
2013
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam
2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
2013
Amor and Psycho: Stories by Carolyn Cooke
2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
2013
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
2013
Schroder by Amity Gaige
2013
Middle C by William H. Gass
2013
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
2013
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
2013
Brown Dog: Novellas by Jim Harrison
2013
Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill
2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
2013
Submergence by J. M. Ledgard
2013
The Facades: A Novel by Eric Lundgren
2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
2013
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
2013
Someone by Alice McDermott
2013
Rustication by Charles Palliser
2013
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
2013
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
2013
The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees
2013
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
2013
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
2013
Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
2012
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
2012
Little Sinners, and Other Stories (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) by Karen Brown
2012
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
2012
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
2012
Broken Harbour by Tana French
2012
Ghosting by Kirby Gann
2012
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
2012
Pure by Andrew Miller
2012
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
2012
Dear Life by Alice Munro
2012
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2012
The Cove by Ron Rash
2012
The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
2012
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
2012
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
2012
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
2011
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
2011
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2011
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
2011
Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock
2011
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
2011
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
2011
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
2011
Leche by R. Zamora Linmark
2011
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2011
The Call by Yannick Murphy
2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
2011
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
2011
Cain by José Saramago
2011
Luminarium by Alex Shakar
2011
There But For The by Ali Smith
2011
Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
2011
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
2011
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
2010
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
2010
Tutankhamun: The Book of Shadows by Nick Drake
2010
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin
2010
Faithful Place by Tana French
2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
2010
The Four Stages of Cruelty: A Novel by Keith Hollihan
2010
Father of the Rain by Lily King
2010
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
2010
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
2010
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
2010
Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
2010
Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
2010
Vestments by John Reimringer
2010
Innocent by Scott Turow
2010
Self Portraits: Fictions by Frederic Tuten
2010
The Way of the Women by Marlene Van Niekerk
2010
Years of Red Dust by Qiu Xiaolong
2010
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
2009
The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook
2009
Spooner by Pete Dexter
2009
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
2009
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
2009
Ravens by George Dawes Green
2009
Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009
The Believers by Zoë Heller
2009
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
2009
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
2009
New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
2009
The Last War: A Novel by Ana Menéndez
2009
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2009
The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
2009
Drood by Dan Simmons
2009
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
2009
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
2009
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
2009
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
2008
Lie Down with the Devil by Linda Barnes
2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
2008
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
2008
Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook
2008
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza
2008
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
2008
The Likeness by Tana French
2008
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
2008
Ritual by Mo Hayder
2008
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
2008
The Private Patient by P. D. James
2008
Day by A. L. Kennedy
2008
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
Sway by Zachary Lazar
2008
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
2008
The Boat by Nam Le
2008
Flesh House by Stuart MacBride
2008
How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
2008
Lush Life by Richard Price
2008
Serena by Ron Rash
2008
Fear of Landing by David Waltner-Toews
2008
Breath by Tim Winton
2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2008
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
2007
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
2007
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
2007
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
2007
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
2007
The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
2007
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
2007
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2007
Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
2007
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
2007
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
2007
Them by Nathan McCall
2007
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
2007
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
2007
Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
2007
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
2007
Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
2007
White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya
2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
2007
End of Story by Peter Abrahams
2006
The Littlest Hitler - Stories by Ryan Boudinot
2006
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
2006
The King of Lies by John Hart
2006
The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin
2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006
The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty
2006
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
2006
Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
2006
A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart
2006
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
2006

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