Best Modern American Novels - April 2024

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616208686
• ASIN: 1616208686
• ISBN: 1616208686
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEGHT6
• ASIN: B000SEGHT6
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451696191
• ASIN: 1451696191
• ISBN: 9781451696196
• Brand: MTV Books
• Manufacturer: MTV Books

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Tenth Gift: A Novel

• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• Manufacturer: Crown

To Kill a Mockingbird

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060935464
• ASIN: 0060935464
• ISBN: 0060935464
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Ulysses (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B000FC1KRU
• ASIN: B000FC1KRU
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B004AP9W2I
• ASIN: B004AP9W2I
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

• ASIN: B007978OY6
• ASIN: B007978OY6
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B001LOEG1S
• ASIN: B001LOEG1S
• Manufacturer: Delta

Sunset Beach: A Novel

Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach – it comes with a twist.Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried – to Drue’s eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance – her grandparents’ beach bungalo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125012610X
• ASIN: 125012610X
• ISBN: 125012610X
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

1984

• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501173219
• ASIN: 1501173219
• ISBN: 1501173219
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Girl He Used to Know: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author of On the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love.Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess.Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game—and his heart—to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D2BR737
• ASIN: B07D2BR737
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

CIRCE

• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels : A Library of America Boxed Set

The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set. The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly

• UPC: 53692530
• Rating: 4.667

American Spy : A Novel

"[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carré with the racial complexity of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) What if your sense of duty required you to betray the

• UPC: 282316098
• Rating: 3.5

The Great American Read: The Book of Books : Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels?

• UPC: 270948048

The Best American Essays of the Century

An anthology of fifty-five essays on a variety of topics features contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and other notable twentieth-century literary

• UPC: 1572777
• Rating: 4.0

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories : A Library of America Boxed Set

For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Collection. In such

• UPC: 55960590

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise

• UPC: 661769729

American War : A novel

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones

• UPC: 55032218
• Rating: 3.6

Flight of the Sparrow : A Novel of Early America

Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was captured by Native Americans in 1675 and who developed empathy for her captors before

• UPC: 31892587
• Rating: 3.667

The Other Americans : A Novel

9781524747145

• UPC: 651744655
• Rating: 3.0