2024 (Fiction) |
Night Watch |
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Jayne Anne Phillips
Kirkus Set in West Virginia during and after the Civil War, Phillips’ book takes as given that slavery ...More |
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2024 (Biography) |
King: A Life |
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Jonathan Eig
Publishers Weekly Martin Luther King Jr. went beyond meek nonviolence into far-reaching radicalism, according...More |
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2023 (Fiction) |
Demon Copperhead: |
Barbara Kingsolver
Publishers Weekly The family of West Texas born-and-raised Cassidy Drake, who’s 13 and reads as white, ...More |
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2021 (Fiction) |
The Night Watchman: |
Louise Erdrich
Library Journal In 1953, Chippewa Council member Thomas Wazhushk, night watchman at a factory near the Turtle...More |
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2020 (Fiction) |
The Nickel Boys |
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Colson Whitehead
Book list There were rumors about Nickel Academy, a Florida reform school, but survivors kept their traumas t...More |
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2020 (Biography) |
Sontag: Her Life and Work |
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Benjamin Moser
Publishers Weekly In this doorstopper biography, Moser (Why This: A Biography of Clarice Lispector), for whom...More |
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2019 |
The Overstory |
Richard Powers
Library Journal Standing as silent witnesses to our interweaving genealogies, cyclical wars, and collapsing e...More |
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2019 |
Amity and Prosperity |
Eliza Griswold
Library Journal Fracking, the extraction of natural gas from rocks up to one mile deep, made some residents o...More |
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2019 |
The New Negro |
Jeffery C. Stewart
Publishers Weekly Stewart (Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen) offers a detailed, definitive biography of Alain...More |
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2018 |
Less |
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Andrew Sean Greer
Library Journal This hilarious and touching novel follows Arthur Less, a gay man, as he travels around the wo...More |
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2016 |
The Sympathizer |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publishers Weekly This astonishing first novel has at its core a lively, wry first-person narrator called the...More |
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2014 |
The Goldfinch: A Novel |
Donna Tartt
Publishers Weekly Donna Tartt's latest novel clocks in at an unwieldy 784 pages. The story begins with a...More |
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2010 |
Tinkers |
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Paul Harding
Book list *Starred Review* A tinker is a mender, and in Harding's spellbinding debut, he imagines the old...More |
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2009 |
Olive Kitteridge: |
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Elizabeth Strout
Library Journal In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive K...More |
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2007 |
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy
Publishers Weekly Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in t...More |
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2006 |
March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines t...More |
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2005 |
Gilead: A Novel |
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Marilynne Robinson
Book list To find out what really happened to her purportedly dead sister, sharpshooting 13-year-old Georgie ...More |
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