Salon.com Recommended Fiction - Part 2
Discover Salon.com's top fiction picks in Part 2 of their recommended reading list. Explore must-read novels and acclaimed books curated by literary experts for your next great read.
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Riven Rock
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
In a real-life love story retold by an award-winning author, early twentieth-century budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls for and marries Stanley McCormick, who shortly after …
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Trout Fishing in America
by Richard Brautigan
The author reminisces about growing up and the outdoor life, while his book becomes a living character
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Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the …
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Nothing Like the Sun
by Anthony Burgess
Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler
Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese is reissued. Includes two subsequently published …
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Possession
by A. S. Byatt
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating …
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Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the …
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The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.
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Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver
The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We …
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon
Chabon's "New York Times"-bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age story that introduces Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation.
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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s …
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
by Carolyn Chute
Earlene marries into the povertystricken Bean family and finds herself being pulled down into their destitution of resources and spirit. In spite of everything, Earlene …
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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear …
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The House of Sleep
by Jonathan Coe
Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in France Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The …
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Life and Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee
From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from …
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Goodbye Without Leaving
by Laurie Colwin
An insightful domestic comedy, at once hilarious and extremely moving, Goodbye Without Leaving is the story of a woman's attempt to remain true to herself …
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Guide
by Dennis Cooper
A writer in Los Angeles visits the world of burnt-out youth as part of researching a novel. He describes the violence, joins them in taking …