Some Good Mainstream Fiction
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The Pact
by Jodi Picoult
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- …
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into …
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Small Island
by Andrea Levy
Told in four distinct voices, the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2004 is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, encapsulating …
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Tangerine Dream
by Ken Douglas
Best friends Haley and Taylor must deal with a terrible loss when Taylor's twin sister, Dylan, is killed in a car crash. Meanwhile, Taylor and …
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The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
"London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until …
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The Lightning Keeper
by Starling Lawrence
The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet …
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The Love Season
by Elin Hilderbrand
When Renata comes to Nantucket to visit her fiancee's family, she decides to also visit Marguerite, the god-mother she's been forbidden to see her entire …
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A Wedding in December
by Anita Shreve
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the …
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Last Night
by James Salter
A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author's signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men …
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Envy
by Kathryn Harrison
A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years …
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and …
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Fallen
by David Maine
The author of "The Preservationist" pens a provocative epic of temptation and murder, of exile and loss, in this convincing portrait of a family driven …
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The Doctor's Daughter
by Hilma Wolitzer
The Doctor's Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory.
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Appaloosa
by Robert B. Parker
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch attempt to rid Appaloosa of renegade rancher Randall Bragg.
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
In this collection of stories, the author illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate.
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Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende
Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother …
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Love in the Present Tense
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Accustomed to leaving her frail young son with her neighbor, Mitch, while she goes to work, Pearl, a teenage mother, one day does not return, …
