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If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
James Baldwin
The World According to Garp
John Irving


In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice, with two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving is now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.

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The April 3rd Incident
Yu Hua
In Praise of Disobedience
In Praise of Disobedience
Oscar Wilde
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Mark Fisher
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold
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William Shakespeare and James Anthony
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
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The William H. Gass Reader
William H. Gass
The Life of Saul Bellow
The Life of Saul Bellow
Zachary Leader
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The Dawn Watch
Maya Jasanoff
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell
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Jozef Czapski
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Well-Read Black Girl
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Paperback Crush
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John Updike
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Burton Watson
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Martin Amis
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Emily Bernard
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Richard Wright
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Distant Reading
Distant Reading
Franco Moretti
The Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
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J.G. Farrell
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Bruno Bettelheim
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Cheever
Blake Bailey
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Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut
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Doris Lessing
Shadow Country
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Brother, I'm Dying
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Edwidge Danticat
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Claire Tomalin
Exile and the Kingdom
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
Refusing Heaven
Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert
Beloved
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Carried Away
Carried Away
Alice Munro
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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Salman Rushdie
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Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann
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