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  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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    Ken Kesey’s bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched

    Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately s

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Kesey, Ken
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: December 31, 2002
    • ISBN10: 0141181222
    • Language: English
  • Rebecca, Not Becky

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    In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers–one white, one Black–living in a “perfect” suburb that explores motherhood, friend

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    • Author: Platt, Christine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063213583
    • Language: English
  • Help Wanted

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    Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, th

    • Author: Waldman, Adelle
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 05, 2024
    • ISBN10: 132402044X
    • Language: English
  • How I Won a Nobel Prize

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    Named One of the Best Books of the Year by VOGUE and VOX

    A “very funny, very good” (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe

    • Author: Taranto, Julius
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 12, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316513075
    • Language: English
  • Whale: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

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    ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE **

    A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy–a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred Years of So

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    • Author: Myeong-Kwan, Cheon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 372
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861148
    • Language: English
  • Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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    Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.

    Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it

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    • Author: Burroughs Jr, William S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 16 2013
    • ISBN10: 0802122078
    • Language: English
  • Patricia Wants to Cuddle

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    One of the Best Books of 2022
    NPR – ThemLit HubCrimeReadsBook RiotChicago Review of Books

    “A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back

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    • Author: Allen, Samantha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638930511
    • Language: English
  • Something to Do with Paying Attention

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    David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —[more below]

    • Author: Wallace, David Foster
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 05, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1946022276
    • Language: English
  • Friday Black

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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.”–New York Times Book Review

    The acclaimed debut collection from the author of Chain Gang All S

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    • Author: Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 23, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1328911241
    • Language: English
  • Dinosaurs

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    Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as “a writer without limits” (Karen Russell) and “a stone-cold genius” (Jenny Offill), Millet makes

    • Author: Millet, Lydia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 22, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324066121
    • Language: English
  • Galapagos

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    “A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”The New York Times Book Review

    Gal pagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise s

    • Series: Delta Fiction
    • Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 12, 1999
    • ISBN10: 0385333870
    • Language: English
  • Player Piano

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    “A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”–San Francisco Chronicle

    Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find

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    • Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: January 12 1999
    • ISBN10: 0385333781
    • Language: English
  • I Am a Cat

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    “A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn’t have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn’t much good for anything except watching human beings in action…” —

    • Series: Tuttle Classics
    • Author: Natsume, Soseki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 01, 2001
    • ISBN10: 080483265X
    • Language: English
  • Rebecca, Not Becky

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    In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers–one white, one Black–living in a “perfect” suburb that explores motherhood, friend

    • Author: Platt, Christine
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 05, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063213591
    • Language: English
  • The Centre

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    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

    “The most fascinating debut I’ve read in years–enigmatic, biting,

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    • Author: Siddiqi, Ayesha Manazir
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638930546
    • Language: English
  • Nightbitch

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    In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog. – “A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring lin[more below]

    • Author: Yoder, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 05, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593312147
    • Language: English
  • My Sister, the Serial Killer

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    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun[more below]

    • Author: Braithwaite, Oyinkan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 30, 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525564209
    • Language: English
  • Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

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    75th Anniversary Edition–Includes a New Introduction by T a Obreht

    George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel–a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarian

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    • Author: Orwell, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 06 2003
    • ISBN10: 0452284244
    • Language: English
  • James

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view – From the “liter[more below]

    • Author: Everett, Percival
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 0385550367
    • Language: English
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    “A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune

    “Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier

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    • Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: August 11 2020
    • ISBN10: 525541349
    • Language: English
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