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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff
2013
Fobbit by David Abrams
2012
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
2012
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
2012
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
2012
Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel by Shalom Auslander
2012
Pure by Julianna Baggott
2012
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
2012
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
2012
HHhH by Laurent Binet
2012
San Miguel by T. C. Boyle
2012
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
2012
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
2012
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
2012
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
2012
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander
2012
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2012
Canada by Richard Ford
2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
2012
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
2012
Married Love by Tessa Hadley
2012
Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
2012
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
2012
In One Person by John Irving
2012
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
2012
Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
2012
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
2012
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
2012
Watergate by Thomas Mallon
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
2012
Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
2012
Home by Toni Morrison
2012
Dear Life by Alice Munro
2012
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
2012
Shine, Shine, Shine by Lydia Netzer
2012
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
2012
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo
2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2012
Almost Never by Daniel Sada
2012
Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber
2012
NW by Zadie Smith
2012
The Forgetting Tree: A Novel by Tatjana Soli
2012
An American Spy by Olen Steinhauer
2012
The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern
2012
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
2012
The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel by Christopher Tilghman
2012
By Blood by Ellen Ullman
2012
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
2012
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2012
Building Stories by Chris Ware
2012
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
2012
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2011
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
2011
The Submission by Amy Waldman
2011
The New Yorker stories by Ann Beattie
2010
Wild Child: and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle
2010
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
2010
Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
2010
Room by Emma Donoghue
2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010
Vida by Patricia Engel
2010
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2010
Something Red: A Novel by Jennifer Gilmore
2010
American Subversive by David Goodwillie
2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
2010
The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems by Edward Hirsch
2010
Double Happiness: Stories by Mary-Beth Hughes
2010
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
2010
What Becomes by A. L. Kennedy
2010
Great House by Nicole Krauss
2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
2010
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
2010
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
2010
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
2010
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
2010
Solar by Ian McEwan
2010
The Spot: Stories by David Means
2010
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
2010
The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney
2010
Bound by Antonya Nelson
2010
One Day by David Nicholls
2010
Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
2010
Foreign bodies by Cynthia Ozick
2010
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
2010
Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam by David Rabe
2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
2010
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson
2010
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
2010
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
2010
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
2010
The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
2010
Fun with Problems by Robert Stone
2010
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
2010
Selected Stories by William Trevor
2010
Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
2010
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
2010
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
2010
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
2009
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2009
Invisible by Paul Auster
2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
2009
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
2009
Amateur Barbarians: A Novel by Robert Cohen
2009
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
2009
The Sky Below by Stacey D'Erasmo
2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
2009
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
2009
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
2009
Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler
2009
A Village Life by Louise Glück
2009
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
2009
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009
The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
2009
Family Album by Penelope Lively
2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2009
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
2009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2009
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerney
2009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
2009
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
2009
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
2009
Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson
2009
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
2009
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2009
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
2009
One D.O.A. One on the Way by Mary Robison
2009
Follow Me by Joanna Scott
2009
Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean Thompson
2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
2009
Love and Summer by William Trevor
2009
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
2009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
2009
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
2009
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
2009
A Better Angel: Stories by Chris Adrian
2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
2008
Elegy: Poems by Mary Jo Bang
2008
Life Class by Pat Barker
2008
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008
Black Flies by Shannon Burke
2008
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
2008
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
2008
The School on Heart's Content Road by Carolyn Chute
2008
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
2008
The Blue Star: A Novel by Tony Earley
2008
Yesterday's Weather: Stories by Anne Enright
2008
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
2008
The Other by David Guterson
2008
The Finder by Colin Harrison
2008
The English Major by Jim Harrison
2008
Modern Life: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Matthea Harvey
2008
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
2008
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera
2008
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 by Clive James
2008
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
2008
The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson
2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler
2008
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
The Boat by Nam Le
2008
Bass Cathedral by Nathaniel Mackey
2008
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
Dictation: A Quartet by Cynthia Ozick
2008
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Viktor Pelevin
2008
Lush Life by Richard Price
2008
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2008
Indignation by Philip Roth
2008
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
2008
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
2008
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2008
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
2008
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
2008
Fanon by John Edgar Wideman
2008
Breath by Tim Winton
2008
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
2008
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
2007
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
2007
Next Life by Rae Armantrout
2007
Winterton Blue by Trezza Azzopardi
2007
Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry
2007
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2007
House Lights by Leah Hager Cohen
2007
Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by Rebecca Curtis
2007
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis
2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
2007
The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard
2007
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
2007
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
2007
The Gathering by Anne Enright
2007
Knots by Nuruddin Farah
2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
2007
Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
2007
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
2007
Bearing the Body: A Novel by Ehud Havazelet
2007
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
2007
The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert
2007
A Free Life by Ha Jin
2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2007
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
2007
Fellow Travelers: A Novel by Thomas Mallon
2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
2007
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
2007
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
2007
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
2007
Dancing to "Almendra" by Mayra Montero
2007
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
2007
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
2007
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2007
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
2007
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
2007
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard
2007
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
2007
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
2007
Throw Like A Girl: Stories by Jean Thompson
2007
Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Tóibín
2007
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
2007
Cheating at Canasta: Stories by William Trevor
2007
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
2007
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
2007
Selected Poems by Derek Walcott
2007
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
2006
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
2006
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
2006
Brookland by Emily Barton
2006
Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolaño
2006
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
2006
Only Revolutions: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
2006
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
2006
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
2006
Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard
2006
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
2006
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
2006
Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
2006
Averno: Poems by Louise Glück
2006
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
2006
The Stories of Mary Gordon by Mary Gordon
2006
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
2006
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
2006
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
2006
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
2006
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
2006
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
2006
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
2006
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
2006
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
2006
The Inhabited World by David Long
2006
After This by Alice McDermott
2006
Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane
2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2006
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
2006
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2006
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
2006
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed
2006
Everyman by Philip Roth
2006
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
2006
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
2006
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
2006
Terrorist by John Updike
2006
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
2006
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua
2006
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
2005
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2003
Golden Deeds by Catherine Chidgey
2002
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2002
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
1999
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
1998
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
1996

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