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January 29

Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Book

As featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, in the Skimm, on Fresh Air, and elsewhere, an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.

In a country teetering...

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February 26

A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)

Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Book

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism...
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March 26

Less

ANDREW SEAN GREER · Lee Boudreaux Books
Pages: 352
Format: Book

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations...

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April 30

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 533
Format: Book

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. 

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions,...

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