Some Captivating Fiction
Explore a curated list of captivating fiction books that will transport you to new worlds. Discover must-read novels for every reader's taste and imagination.
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What Was Lost
by Catherine O'Flynn
'What Was Lost' is a poignant tale of changing times at Green Oaks shopping centre, and the balancing of love and loss.
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Tangerine Dream
by Ken Douglas
"Oh, Lord!" Gayle jerks the wheel to the right, but too late. "Dylan," she cries as the oncoming car strikes them head on. Within minutes …
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The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdie
"The Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. Vivid, gripping, and profoundly moving, …
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Northline
by Willy Vlautin
Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of …
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America America
by Ethan Canin
Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry …
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The Sister
by Poppy Adams
This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after …
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Lush Life
by Richard Price
In "Lush Life," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, …
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The Third Angel
by Alice Hoffman
Follows the lives of three women in love with the wrong men--Madeleine Heller, attracted to her sister's fiance; Frieda Lewis, the muse to an ill-fated …
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
"A novel of great intensity and power. The Cellist of Sarajevo explores how war can change one's definition of humanity, how music affects our emotional …
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Missy
by Chris Hannan
Missy is laudanum, or liquid opium. Missy is Dol McQueen, a nineteen-year-old "flash-girl" traveling the arduous wagon trail from San Francisco to the boomtowns of …
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Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
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Tigerheart
by Peter Allen David
Growing up in London on his father's fantastical tales of a magical land called the Anyplace, Paul Dear journeys into this enchanted world after tragedy …
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The Outcast
by Sadie Jones
Neglected by his father and stepmother in the years after his mother's death, seventeen-year-old Lewis Aldridge commits an act of violence that lands him in …
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is …
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What Happened to Anna K.
by Irina Reyn
Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian immigrant community, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom …
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Indignation
by Philip Roth
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951 in America, the second year …
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The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti
Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren …
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Slumberland
by Paul Beatty
Hailed by "The New York Times" and the "Los Angeles Times" as one of the best writers of his generation, Beatty turns his incisive eye …
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Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster
A new novel with a dark political twist from “one of America’s greats.”* Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the …
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Darkmans
by Nicola Barker
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all... If …
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Beijing Coma
by Ma Jian
At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma" is a …
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Cost
by Roxana Robinson
Settling into her parents' home in Maine hoping to help them with their respective health challenges, art professor Julie Lambert is shattered by the discovery …
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Gossip of the Starlings
by Nina de Gramont
Admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls with the provision that she clean up her act, Catherine Morrow's efforts are threatened when she enters …