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The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book …

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA …

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to …

The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about …

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and …

Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, …

McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 60 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern by Claire Boyle, Dave Eggers, Holly Andres

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of …

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …