Literary Fiction

Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave

EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN is set in London at the beginning of World War II, and tells the little known story of teachers sending their pupils to rural areas to protect them from Nazi air raids in London - the light skin children, that is. There is also a wartime story of romance and loss. The book is inspired by the...

Daddy Emma Cline

DADDY is a brilliant collection of dark stories praised by critics around the country. These literary treasures run the gamit from an absentee father collecting his son from boarding school to a young woman selling her underwear to a stranger to a notorious guest arriving in the Southwest for rehab. Fans of The...

The Guest Emma Cline

THE GUEST is a powerful novel about a young woman discarded at a train station by the older man with whom she had been living. She then drifts through the rarefied world of Long Island attempting to land on solid ground. This is a spellbinding literary achievement. 

 

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The Night Travelers Armando Lucas Correa

THE NIGHT TRAVELERS is a brilliant use of language that follows three generations of women from Berlin at the beginning of World War Two, to Cuba, France, and back to Berlin. It is a powerful look at the terrors and hopes of strong women.

 

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The Snow Queen Michael Cunningham

THE SNOW QUEEN follows two brothers, one of whom is soon to marry, and the struggles they face in the serious illness of the future bride, drug use, and the different path each takes.

 

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Day Michael Cunningham

DAY is a portrait of compassion, tragedy and tenderness experienced by a family that takes place on April 5,2019 - April 5, 2020, and April 5, 2022, It is a story told masterfully by a master storyteller.

 

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Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton

BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE is about a young boy in 1980s Brisbane, Australia trying to make it through...

The Book of Jonas Stephen Dau

THE BOOK OF JONAS is the tense account of a young boy from an unnamed  Middle Eastern country who is relocated to America. He tells a counselor of the U.S. soldier who saved his life and meets the soldier's mother when a shocking secret emerges.  

 

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Spooner Pete Dexter

SPOONER is the book Pete Dexter was born to write as he tells the story of a troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, and violent and troubled adulthood.

 

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The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein

THE SUNLIT NIGHT finds a young girl fleeing heartbreak in Manhattan and a Russian immigrant from Brooklyn meeting up near the Arctic Circle. The novel feels like a young master's touch has delivered a tale that is full of fun, love, mystery and even on occasion could pass for a travel book. This title has been...