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Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Maurice Sendak
Eric Puchner • Dream State: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel
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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
And worse than the pain was the gladness lurking underneath, Andrew monstrously pleased to know he hadn’t been cast off, hadn’t been left behind, that Eddie still wanted him in his final moment, even if he’d failed him in the grandest possible sense.
Lee Mandelo • Summer Sons
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Less knows so well the pleasures of youth—danger, excitement, losing oneself in a dark club with a pill, a shot, a stranger’s mouth—and, with Robert and his friends, the pleasures of age—comfort and ease, beauty and taste, old friends and old stories and wine, whiskey, sunsets over the water. His entire life, he has alternated between the two.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
“You’re an artist,” her boyfriend Pablo