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Kiley Reid
Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion and bad behavior - and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.
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Elif Batuman
Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood.
Diana Reid
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporary narrative that is fiercely authentic.
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Curtis Sittenfeld
This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History.
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Rebecca Makkai
The riveting novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Elaine Hsieh Chou
An uproarious and bighearted satire - alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters.
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R.F. Kuang
An incendiary novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.
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Julia May Jonas
A spectacularly daring and original novel of our times, of the culture wars and cancel culture, Vladimir explores issues of sex, gender, power, and desire from its own unique perspective.
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Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy ‘Alex’ Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. A dropout and the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved crime, Alex was hoping for a fresh start.
Sally Rooney
The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017’s most acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends.
A pitch perfect encapsulation of one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
Donna Tartt
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Brandon Taylor
An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction 2020.
Kira McPherson
Higher Education is a story about identity, intellectualism and class, and the transformative power of education from an exceptional new voice in Australian literary fiction.
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Christine Smallwood
Christine Smallwood’s debut is a campus novel like no other.
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Zadie Smith
A brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an honest look at people’s deceptions.
Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl’s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction.
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Ben Lerner
Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is a riveting story about the challenges of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity.
Don DeLillo
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld.
R. O. Kwon
A fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
Meg Wolitzer
From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings comes a warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world.
Mona Awad
A darkly funny, gothic novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls at a New England university.
Alice Oseman
The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA.
Kingsley Amis
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
Dervla McTiernan
Being brilliant has never been this dangerous…
Alex Michaelides
A spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession…
Jeffrey Eugenides
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.
Christine Riccio
From one of your favorite booktubers, Christine Riccio (Polandbananabooks), comes Again, But Better, a story about second chances, discovering yourself, and doing what makes you happy.
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Tobias Wolff
At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery.
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Evelyn Waugh
In 1925 Charles is quickly seduced by his friend’s opulent and glamorous world and thrilled by an invitation to ‘Brideshead’, the Marchmain’s magnificent ancestral home.
A. S. Byatt
A exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
John Williams
A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man's ordinary, extraordinary life.
J. M. Coetzee
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students.
