A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
 Emotionally draining.: This book actually beat out The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as the most depressing book I've ever read. Although both stories contain equal amounts of death, disfigurements and hopelessness, this one does a better job of painting the [... more]
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Atonement: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to [... more]
$28.95
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Oryx and Crake
Amazon.com Review: In Oryx and Crake, a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible [... more]
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Brick Lane: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Wildly embraced by critics, readers, and contest judges (who put it on the short-list for the 2003 Man Booker Prize), Brick Lane is indeed a rare find: a book that lives up to its hype. Monica Ali's debut novel chronicles the life of [... more]
$25.00
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The Map of Love: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love is a massive family saga, a story that draws its readers into two moments in the complex, troubled history of modern Egypt. The story begins in 1977 in New York. There Isabel Parkman discovers an old [... more]
$14.95
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The God of Small Things
Amazon.com Review: In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and [... more]
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Breakfast On Pluto
Amazon.com Review: Patrick McCabe hit pay dirt with his third novel, The Butcher Boy, which was short-listed for the 1992 Booker Prize, filmed by Neil Jordan, and acclaimed as "a masterpiece of literary ventriloquism." In his fifth, Breakfast [... more]
$22.00
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Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
A tale at once subsumed by race and yet never mentioning it: Literary historians credit much of Ireland's rich literary tradition to its often tragic history. No surprise then that the nation of South Africa, likewise so rich in grief that it might as [... more]
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What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)
Forged Truth: What's Bred in the Bone is the one true stand-alone novel in the Cornish Trilogy. This middle volume is a superb telling of the life of Francis Cornish, the hinge upon whom all of the trilogy is supported. Some elements of the story are [... more]
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The Book and the Brotherhood: A Story about Love and ...
A Chorus-line of Snails: Iris Murdoch's "The Book and the Brotherhood" is a marvelously droll novel of manners that has the audacity to explore the philosophical and moral issues that have effectively paralyzed a group of `60s-era Oxford [... more]
$16.00
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Utz
The world in miniature: In 'Utz' Chatwin has created an object that tempts yet resists definitive analysis. It resembles, in effect, a piece of the Meissen porcelain which is central to its concerns. At once exquisitely wrought, yet appealing to coarser [... more]
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Amazon.com Review: In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet [... more]
$15.00
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