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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable secrets about the family of preachers. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Sea
by John Banville
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife’s death,
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
[A]n impressively researched, challenging novel debut....The particulars and consequences of the 'right' of humans to own other humans are dramatized with unprecedented ingenuity and intensity, in a harrowing tale that scarcely ever raises its voice....This will mean a great deal to a great
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The News from Paraguay
by Lily Tuck
Pursued by the future dictator of Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization due to her lover's arrogant ambitions.
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Award: The National Book Award
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The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
Peter Crowther's book on the election was already in the shops. It was called LANDSLIDE!, and the witty assistant at Dillon's had arranged the window in a scaled-down version of that natural disaster.
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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Middlesex (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicidesthe astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
Soon after the end of World War II, a disillusioned veteran and U.S. Army major named Aldred Leith travels to a Japanese island, hoping to understand the impact of the war on the place. Meanwhile, his friend Peter Exley is investigating war crimes. And two young children, the daughter and
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Award: The National Book Award
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Vernon God Little
by D. B. C. Pierre
In this black comedy by an Australian, set in Texas, Vernon, a poor-white 15-year-old, is accused of perpetrating the high-school massacre that was actually the work of his friend, Jesus, who dies in the process. Panicked, Vernon takes off, becomes a media star, is captured, tried for the
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
by Richard Russo
From his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Alan, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and here he expands his geographical and psychological claims on the small town, blue-collar heart of the country. Empire Falls, Maine, has
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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John Adams
by David McCullough
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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