| Author: | George Saunders |
| Category: |
Literary |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | >> WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 << |
***WINNER OF THE 2018 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR*** The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living... read more
| Author: | Binnie Kirschenbaum |
| Category: |
Literary |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny -an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer-fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious Ne... read more
| Author: | Ann Patchett |
| Category: |
Literary |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
| Awards: | Longlisted Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 The Sunday Times bestseller and a 'Book of the Year' 2019 |
A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place.
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania taken on by hi... read more
| Author: | Yoko Ogawa |
| Category: |
Literary |
| Awards: | Longlisted Booker International 2020 |
Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her ... read more
| Author: | Richard Flanagan |
| Category: |
Literary |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair... read more
| Author: | Richard Powers |
| Category: |
Literary |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019 Shortlisted Man Booker Prize 2018 New York Times bestseller |
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discove... read more
