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by Molly Antopol
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by Tom Hanks
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsA modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culturea hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Rose Tremain
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsRose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories.
by Esther Freud
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsMr. Mac and Me is the story of an unlikely friendship, and a vivid portrait of one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.
by Phil Klay
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsRedeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA stunning work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel from one of our finest writersan epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsFearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsEight storieslonger and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet writtenthat take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
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