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Books about Books
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Roman Year: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
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The House of Doors
by Tan Twan Eng
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
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Colored Television: A Novel
by Danzy Senna
Hardcover: Sep 2024
A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
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Dayswork: A Novel
by Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss
Hardcover: Aug 2024
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest...
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Novel
by Emma Torzs
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection - a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and ...
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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James: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Hardcover: Mar 2024
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...
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But the Girl
by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Paperback: Mar 2024
"Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me…"
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
by Jennifer Croft
Hardcover: Mar 2024
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.
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The Book That Wouldn't Burn: The Library Trilogy #1
by Mark Lawrence
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns...
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
by Mark Dawidziak
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
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