Random House 100 Best Novels - April 2024

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

Number one New York Times best seller Oprah's Book Club Pick From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. "This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist." (San Francisco Chronicle)  "Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary." (Entertainment Weekly) Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. Whe... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NQP84GD
• ASIN: B07NQP84GD
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

• ASIN: 0385333846
• ASIN: 0385333846
• ISBN: 0812988523
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

City of Girls: A Novel

• ASIN: 1594634734
• ASIN: 1594634734
• ISBN: 1594634734
• Brand: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more...  “I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224315
• ASIN: 0735224315
• ISBN: 0735224315
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812976533
• ASIN: 0812976533
• ISBN: 9780812976533
• Brand: Unbranded
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 New York Times bestseller Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, available now.   An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.  In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038549081X
• ASIN: 038549081X
• ISBN: 038549081X
• Brand: AMERICAN WEST BOOKS
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nes... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812978188
• ASIN: 0812978188
• ISBN: 0812978188
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

 THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT - A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Best Seller For listeners of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart...based on a notorious true-life scandal." Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is famil... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06Y1MGNL9
• ASIN: B06Y1MGNL9
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

The Reckoning: A Novel

Number-one best-selling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet. "A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga...The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case." (USA Today) October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D7HZ2MK
• ASIN: B07D7HZ2MK
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B000FC1II6
• ASIN: B000FC1II6
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The City & The City: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underwor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 034549752X
• ASIN: 034549752X
• ISBN: 034549752X
• Brand: Del Rey Books
• Manufacturer: Del Rey

Small Great Things: A Novel

Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Multi-Voiced Performance This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest - complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a pause-resisting plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than 20 years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01JKDTTSQ
• ASIN: B01JKDTTSQ
• Manufacturer: Random House Audio

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethic... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400052181
• ASIN: 1400052181
• ISBN: 9781400052189
• Brand: Brand: Crown
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • What happens when a supposedly perfect match is so wrong it’s right? In this roller-coaster novel of destiny and desire from A. M. Madden, a red-hot cop and a broken beauty are linked by painful pasts . . . and one tempting future.A real hero can protect and serve, but a true hero knows how to love. As an NYPD officer, Benjamin Stone is married to his job, determined to clean up the drug-infested streets. His partner, Rob, always has his back—except when Rob and his girlfriend, Andrea, play matchmaker at his expense. On Ben’s birthday, they’re at it again. Andr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0190HN0Y6
• ASIN: B0190HN0Y6
• Manufacturer: Loveswept

If, Then: A Novel

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All OccasionsThe residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists. In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel real... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525511229
• ASIN: 0525511229
• ISBN: 0525511229
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel : A Novel

Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law. Ravi's entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England.

• UPC: 17686795
• Rating: 3.633

The Best of All Possible Worlds : A Novel

When their homeland is destroyed, the survivors of a proud and aloof alien society struggle to reach out to the rest of the galaxy for aid and understanding while striving to preserve their cherished way

• UPC: 25942572
• Rating: 4.286

Southern Lights : A Novel

Steel sweeps readers from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel--at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and

• UPC: 13315195
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 4.429

Persuader : A Jack Reacher Novel

Includes an excerpt from: Gone

• UPC: 10970462
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 3.765

Before We Were Yours : A Novel

"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone ... one stormy night. Rill Foss ... must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched

• UPC: 55344290
• Rating: 4.648

The Best Kind of People : A Novel

A local schoolteacher is arrested, leaving his family to wrestle with the possibility of his guilt, in this exquisite novel about loyalty, truth, and happiness. The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of

• UPC: 938356412
• Rating: 3.679

Camino Island : A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . a] fast-moving, entertaining tale."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library.

• UPC: 689320415
• Rating: 3.778

Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal

• UPC: 460729
• Rating: 3.934

The Best Kind of People : A Novel

"The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan,

• UPC: 55789396
• Rating: 3.679

BFF*: Two novels by Judy Blume--Just As Long As We're Together/Here's to You, Rachel Robinson (*Best Friends Forever) - eBook

In this new bind-up, Judy Blume's two stories about three best friends will reach a new set of girls. Stephanie, Rachel and Alison know there will be plenty of family issues, broken hearts, and tough

• UPC: 947804425
• Rating: 4.0

Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• UPC: 133024392893
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 11 GBP

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Doctorow, E.L.

• UPC: 193322302347
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Doctorow, E.L. [Good]

• UPC: 402101946996
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 1 USD

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Doctorow, E.L. [Good]

• UPC: 352689653163
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD

Midnight's Children (Modern Library 100 Best Novels), Excellent, Rushdie, Salman

• UPC: 303093888041
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 5 GBP

Ragtime (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Doctorow, E. L. Paperback Book The

• UPC: 383422210124
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) (ExLib) by Doctorow, E.L.

• UPC: 142594710706
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD