Better by the Dozen: Best Recent Fiction Picks
Discover the top 12 must-read fiction books of the year with our 'Better by the Dozen' picks. Find your next favorite novel in this expertly curated list of recent bestsellers and hidden gems.
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Simon Lazarus
by M. A. Kirkwood
In a search for his identity, a young man leaves college in Connecticut and takes to the road in search of the grandfather he's never …
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully …
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age …
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You Remind Me of Me
by Dan Chaon
Why do we become who we become? Through the intertwined threads of the characters' lives, this is the question explored in this eagerly awaited first …
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in …
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Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
A fictional recreation of the life of Marilyn Monroe recounts the tale of her rise to stardom, as seen from Marilyn's perspective.
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Cloud Atlas
by David Stephen Mitchell
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to …