Salon.com Recommended Fiction - Part 6
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Girl in Landscape
by Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the …
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Et Tu, Babe
by Mark Leyner
In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, …
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Advertisements for Myself
by Norman Mailer
A collection of stories, polemic, meditations, and interviews.
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Mary Reilly
by Valerie Martin
From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever and award-winning Property, comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel …
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Bone by Bone
by Peter Matthiessen
"Watson's voice is an artistic triumph. . .[Bone by Bone] may well come to be regarded as a classic." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review In …
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
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The Giant's House
by Elizabeth McCracken
Befriending an adolescent boy who is ostracized for his unusual height, bereft Cape Cod librarian Peggy Cort finds a soulmate in James and comes to …
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Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott
Praised in the highest terms by reviewers, the story of a charming, romantic Irish American explores the impact of his life and death on his …
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The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan
Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, …
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Spider
by Patrick McGrath
Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful …
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Ninety-two in the Shade
by Thomas McGuane
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester …
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Story of My Life
by Jay McInerney
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, is …
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Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
Four African-American women are leaning on each other while "waiting to exhale", waiting for the one man who will take their breath away.
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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
by Larry McMurtry
Ranging from Texas to California on a young writer's journey in a car he calls El Chevy, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers …
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Edwin Mullhouse
by Steven Millhauser
A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler. As a …
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The Ice Storm
by Rick Moody
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and …
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Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Editors' Choice A Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Birds of America is …
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
In clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad …
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Black Betty
by Walter Mosley
Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything—until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept. For …
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Jasmine
by Bharati Mukherjee
After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some …
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Open Secrets
by Alice Munro
A collection of eight short stories about women--their lives, loves and secrets
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The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's …