Vernon God Little

by DBC Pierre

“A dangerous, smart, ridiculous, and very funny first novel . . . Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone…

An Untamed State

by Roxane Gay

“Clear your schedule now! Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear . . . written at a pace that will match your racing heart.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea…

Up High in the Trees

by Kiara Brinkman

“A very moving and perfectly convincing evocation of the inner life of an unusual boy. . . . Brinkman’s portrait of Sebby and his…

Up Through the Water

by Darcey Steinke

“Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction.” –Robert Olmstead, The New York…

Uphill Walkers

by Madeleine Blais

A spirited and moving memoir about the enduring power of family love by the author of the national best-seller In These Girls, Hope Is…

Vacation

by Deb Olin Unferth

“Unferth is one of the most daring and entertaining writers in America today. She is an artist who knows that every sentence is an…

Valiant Gentlemen

by Sabina Murray

…bore witness to so much of the history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is made out of history but is every bit a…

The Unknown Terrorist

by Richard Flanagan

“In this stunning and brilliant and roaring book he shouts the question loudly to be heard in every nation ranged against brooding Bin Laden…

An Unnecessary Woman

by Rabih Alameddine

From the author of the international bestseller The Hakawati comes an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old “unnecessary” woman with a past shaped…

The Ultimate Intimacy

by Ivan Klíma

‘suspense fiction of the highest order, The Ultimate Intimacy belongs on the shelf beside Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. It is a…

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