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last updated December, 2025
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Cape Fever: A Novel
Nadia Davids
The Cold Song
Linn Ullmann
The Wall
John Lanchester
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (Kodansha Globe)
Roger Shattuck
The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami
Grendel
John Gardner
The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
Audition
Pip Adam
Man in the Holocene
Max Frisch
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Wole Soyinka
The Antelope Wife
Louise Erdrich
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Peter Watts
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann
The Invisibility Cloak
Ge Fei
The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier
The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
Mother Night
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot DĂaz
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