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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

A Magical love story that is as sad as it is joyous.
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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots …
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for …
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The Guardian

by Nicholas Sparks

At 29, Julie Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband's tragic death, she is finally ready to risk …
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Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events, but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.
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I Am Charlotte Simmons

by Tom Wolfe

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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Wicked

by Gregory Maguire

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But …
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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

Donation trade.
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Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt …
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History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's …
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about …
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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library …
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Fight Club: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

"Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours …
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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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Saturday

by Ian McEwan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish …