The Return
Hisham Matar
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…
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Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay's life.
Liberation Day
George Saunders
A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution…
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's _To Have and Have Not_ is a commentary on the time of The Great Depression told from multiple viewpoints.
Emma
Jane Austen
Emma is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. So, it's fun.
Sula
Toni Morrison
Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.
Honeymoon
Patrick Modiano
Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.
Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme
His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.
Entropy
Thomas Pynchon
explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party; other stories included in the volume
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
…on a shelf somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality ()…
Oh, William!
Elizabeth Strout
On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together. William uncovers a hitherto unknown relation…
Oranges
John McPhee
… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.
Missing Person
Patrick Modiano
Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965.
Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves past the line.
Grey Bees
Andrey Kurkov
…dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.
A Confederate General from Big Sur
Richard Brautigan
Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.