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1 - Blackouts: A Novel
Justin Torres - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories - personal and collective.Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay - playful raconteur,... |
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2 - The Rabbit Hutch: A novel
Tess Gunty - Knopf
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A stunning debut novel about the quest for transcendence and the desire for love set in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial MidwestOnce a bustling industrial center, Vacca Vale, Indiana is now no more than another notch in the Rust Belt, and its inhabitants are no exception.... |
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4 - Interior Chinatown: A Novel
Charles Yu - Pantheon
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A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play - by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic... |
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5 - Trust Exercise: A Novel
Susan Choi - Henry Holt and Co.
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"Brilliant and challenging . . . An uncanny evocation of the not-so-distant past." -- Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherPulitzer finalist Susan Choi's multipart, narrative-upending novel in which what happens in high school does not stay... |
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6 - The Friend: A Novel
Sigrid Nunez - Riverhead Books
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FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Nunez's prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts - the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence." -The New York Times Book Review"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez... |
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7 - Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
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WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner... |
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8 - The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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9 - Fortune Smiles: Stories
Adam Johnson - Random House
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The National Book Award-winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Masters Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.. "MASTERFUL." - The Washington Post "ENTRANCING." - O: The Oprah Magazine "PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE."... |
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10 - Redeployment
Phil Klay - Penguin Books
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. Its the best thing written so far on what the war did to peoples souls." - Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book ReviewSelected as one of the best books of the year by The New York... |
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