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• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.

• American Gods

  Gaiman, Neil

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  Upon his release from prison, a widower accepts a job as a bodyguard and joins the battle between the gods of yore and the neoteric gods of present-day America.

• Murder on the Orient Express

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Ecpress in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year, but by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil in a Blue Dress

  An Easy Rawlins Mystery

  Mosley, Walter

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  Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atonement

  McEwan, Ian

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  On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Power of the Dog

  a Novel

  Savage, Thomas,

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  Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Little Lies

  Moriarty, Liane

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  Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . .A murder… . . . a tragic accident… . . . or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what?

• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Game of Thrones

  Martin, George R. R.

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  Winter is coming, and in the frozen wastes to the North, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Godfather

  Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999

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  With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pride and Prejudice

  Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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  Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice . Elizabeth's early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lonesome Dove

  a Novel

  McMurtry, Larry

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  The Pulitzer Prize­-winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maltese Falcon

  Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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  A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Olive Kitteridge

  Strout, Elizabeth

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  At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through this brilliant writer's eyes, it's in essence the whole world, and the lives that are lived there are filled with all of the grand human drama-desire, despair,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Remains of the Day

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shining

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André,

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  Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hustler

  Tevis, Walter S.,

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  The legendary novel from the bestselling author of The Queen's Gambit about an ambitious pool shark who discovers what it takes to make the big time. The basis for the acclaimed film starring Paul Newman.

• True Grit

  Portis, Charles

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  It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ross Poldark

  Graham, Winston

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  In the first novel in Winston Graham's hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his beloved Elizabeth. But instead he discovers his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock…Read moreRead more of this annotation