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Maggie Shipstead
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel Prize
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Jonathan Tropper
The Richard & Judy-selected author returns with a touching and hilarious new novel.
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Lionel Shriver
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian’s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only 15 at the time…
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A.M. Homes
May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.
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Jonathan Franzen
From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.
Anne Tyler
The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations…
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Jhumpa Lahiri
An outstanding new collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake
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Liza Klaussmann
The epitome of East Coast glamour, Tiger House is where the beautiful and the damned have always come to play in summer, scene of martinis and moonlit conspiracies, and newly…
J. D. Salinger
Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty…
Christina Stead
Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife, he a fully blown narcissist and she spoiled and prone to fits of despair. Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life…
Mr John Steinbeck
Features an epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish…
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Zadie Smith
Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of…
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Katherine Dunn
A special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Katherine Dunn’s extraordinary cult classic, with a new introduction by the author.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the…
Dodie Smith
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her…
Karen Russell
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor…
Ayana Mathis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison.’ Oprah Winfrey ‘Mathis traces the fates of…
Justin Torres
A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York.
Celeste Ng
A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation
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Leo Tolstoy
Set against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army…
Herman Koch
How far will parents go to save their children? Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul’s brother Serge and his wife Babette. Paul knows…
Georgia Blain
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the woes of the middle class. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships…
