Books for those with Smarty Pants and wide ranging interests
Explore a curated list of books for those with smarty pants and wide-ranging interests. Discover diverse reads that challenge, inspire, and entertain every curious mind.
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit …
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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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Hood
by Emma Donoghue
A romance between two lesbians in Ireland, from its beginning in school to its dissolution in death. Repeatedly they break up, come together, break up …
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The Woman Who Walked into Doors
by Roddy Doyle
“This unflinching novel chronicles a woman’s relationship with a violent man in a way that brings fresh insight to the subject . . . engaging …
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Borderliners
by Peter Hoeg
Catcher in the Rye meets A Brief History of Time in Peter Hoeg's Borderliners (Glamour)--a tightly-wound, stunningly original psychological drama about a young man at …
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The Family Markowitz
by Allegra Goodman
Told through weddings, deaths, holiday dinners, and dreams, the story of three generations of the Markowitzes is revealed.
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Bee Season
by Myla Goldberg
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; …
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Close Range
by Annie Proulx
A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.
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Changing Places
by David Lodge
Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first …
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
by Robert C. O'Brien
Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. …
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
This special edition ofA Wrinkle in Timeincludes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books …