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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780060838676
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Published: Amistad - March 19th, 2013

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith


The House of the Spirits: A Novel By Isabel Allende Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781501117015
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Published: Atria Books - December 15th, 2015

“Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America.” —The New York Times Book Review

Our Shared Shelf, Emma Watson Goodreads Book Club Pick


Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics) By Jane Austen Cover Image
$9.00
ISBN: 9780307386861
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Published: Vintage - September 4th, 2007

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it—and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.


Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy #1) By Kevin Kwan Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780345803788
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Published: Anchor - May 20th, 2014

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The international bestselling sensation that was the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture. • "There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich ...


I Capture the Castle By Dodie Smith Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780312201654
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 15th, 1999

One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle!

“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series


Queenie By Candice Carty-Williams Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501196027
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Published: Gallery/Scout Press - November 5th, 2019

ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT!

“[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestsel


The Cook: A Novel By Maylis de Kerangal, Sam Taylor (Translated by) Cover Image
By Maylis de Kerangal, Sam Taylor (Translated by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250251152
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Published: Picador - March 17th, 2020

"A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review

One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March


The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared By Jonas Jonasson Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781401324643
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Published: Hachette Books - September 11th, 2012

A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.
The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies sold worldwide!


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Little Weirds By Jenny Slate Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316485340
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - November 5th, 2019

One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood By Trevor Noah Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399588198
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Published: One World - February 12th, 2019

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
 


Shrill By Lindy West Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780316348461
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Published: Hachette Books - February 28th, 2017

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.


Me Talk Pretty One Day By David Sedaris Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316776967
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Published: Back Bay Books - June 5th, 2001

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.


Little Women By Louisa May Alcott, Regina Barreca (Introduction by), Susan Straight (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Louisa May Alcott, Regina Barreca (Introduction by), Susan Straight (Afterword by)
$5.95
ISBN: 9780451532084
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Published: Signet - May 1st, 2012

Louisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic coming of age story about four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
 


A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250094735
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Published: Picador - August 2nd, 2016

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015
One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.


The Collected Stories (FSG Classics) By Grace Paley Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780374530280
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 3rd, 2007

This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again.


The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure By William Goldman Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9780156035217
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Published: Harper Perennial - October 8th, 2007

William Goldman’s beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers.

This tale of true love, high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts was unforgettably depicted in the 1987 film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Fred Savage, Robin Wright, and others.


Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman, Billy Collins (Foreword by), Peter Davison (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Walt Whitman, Billy Collins (Foreword by), Peter Davison (Afterword by)
$5.95
ISBN: 9780451419170
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Published: Signet - November 5th, 2013

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
 


Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) By Langston Hughes Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679728184
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 1990

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.


Upstream: Selected Essays By Mary Oliver Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143130086
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Published: Penguin Books - October 29th, 2019

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year 

The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver
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My Antonia: Introduction by Jane Smiley (Vintage Classics) By Willa Cather Cover Image
$10.00
ISBN: 9780525562863
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Published: Vintage - March 6th, 2018

This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather’s masterpiece features a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley.


The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (German and Austrian Literature) By Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (Translator) Cover Image
By Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (Translator)
$13.95
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ISBN: 9781564784971
Published: Dalkey Archive Press - October 1st, 2008

First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches.


The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Novel #1) By Raymond Chandler Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780394758282
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - July 12th, 1988

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.


A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet #1) By Madeleine L'Engle Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780312367541
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Published: Square Fish - May 1st, 2007

Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture.

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.


Tales of the City: A Novel By Armistead Maupin Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780061358302
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Published: Harper Perennial - May 29th, 2007

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City


Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books #1) By Andrew Sean Greer Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316316132
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Published: Back Bay Books - May 22nd, 2018

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017


Call Me by Your Name: A Novel By André Aciman Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374118044
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 23rd, 2007

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James Ivory

The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay

A New York Times
Bestseller
A USA Today
Bestseller


Another Country (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679744719
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992

From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France. • “Brilliant and fiercely told.” —The New York Times