Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set during more than one decade of the 20th Century.
20th Century (multiple decades)
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A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.
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Our Evenings: A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
Hardcover: Oct 2024
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed experiences.
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The MANIAC
by Benjamin Labatut
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age ...
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Everything We Never Had
by Randy Ribay
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.
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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by Ruben Reyes
Hardcover: Aug 2024
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
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Time's Mouth: A Novel
by Edan Lepucki
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by Noliwe Rooks
Hardcover: Jul 2024
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation.
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The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by Bart Yates
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s ...
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Toward Eternity: A Novel
by Anton Hur
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it ...
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The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
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After the Funeral and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships.
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The New Earth: A Novel
by Jess Row
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row
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