The Most Important Books of the 21st Century - So Far!

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  • The Dutch House: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07PRXT94R
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists (The Magazine of New Writing)

    • ASIN: 1909889067
    • ISBN: 9781909889064
    • Manufacturer: Granta Magazine

    The third volume of Granta’s renowned and prescient, Best of Young American NovelistsEvery ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American fiction by writers under the age of forty, showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation – writers of remarkable achievement and promise. In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such lum... [Read More]

  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)

    • ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
    • Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

  • Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    • ASIN: B07HY7YH7R
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon (Publishers Weekly).   Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unpre... [Read More]

  • Female Force: Best Sellers

    • ASIN: 161623928X
    • ISBN: 161623928X
    • Manufacturer: Bluewater Productions

    See the collected life stories of JK Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, and Tony Morrison in this broad examination of strong women that have made a difference in today's literature.

  • Parable of the Talents

    • ASIN: B008HALPHC
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

  • The Best of Xero

    • ASIN: 1892391171
    • ISBN: 1892391171
    • Brand: Brand: Tachyon Publications
    • Manufacturer: Tachyon Publications

    From modest beginnings to the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, Xero was a fascinating and controversial convergence of writers, artists, and a burgeoning fan community. Collected here from Pat & Dick Lupoff’s legendary fanzine are an array of excellent essays, memoirs, and ongoing debates on science fiction, mysteries, comic books, and popular c... [Read More]

  • The Sparrow: A Novel (The Sparrow series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B000SEIFGO
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

    • ASIN: B00BATKV2M
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of  Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of ... [Read More]

  • Lights All Night Long: A Novel

    • ASIN: 052555873X
    • ISBN: 052555873X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • Run: A Novel

    • ASIN: B000SEJ1BW
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

    "Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful n... [Read More]

  • The Nix: A novel

    • ASIN: B01A4B1PEE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0036S4CIO
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0316027669
    • ISBN: 0316027669
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of Fra... [Read More]

  • Ilium (Ilium series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B000FC129Q
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

    • ASIN: 0316386553
    • ISBN: 0316386553
    • Brand: Lee Boudreaux Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books

    A Finalist for the PEN/ Faulkner Awardn Amazon Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick One of Bustle's "Most Important Books of 2016" Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco... [Read More]

  • Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

    • ASIN: B01G0GD07M
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.With a new bonus chap... [Read More]

  • Broken Sleep

    • ASIN: 1590514483
    • ISBN: 1590514483
    • Brand: Other Press LLC
    • Manufacturer: Other Press

    Spanning 1940s to 2020s America, a Pynchon-esque saga about rock music, art, politics, and the elusive nature of loveMeet everyman Moses Teumer, whose recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia has sent him in search of a donor. When he discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother, he must hunt down his birth parents... [Read More]

  • The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

    • ASIN: B004EPZ6CE
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Orfeo: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00DX5XAA6
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus."Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter." —Heller McAlpin, NPRIn Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on h... [Read More]

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