Reading Guides

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  1. Book ImageA Good Indian Wife

    Anne Cherian

    “An absorbing tale of contrasts. . . . Cherian tells the story with quiet strength.” —San Francisco ChronicleMore

  2. Book ImageThe Garden of Last Days

    Andre Dubus III

    “So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyMore

  3. Book ImageScottsboro

    Ellen Feldman

    Set in the 1930s South, this resonant novel of race and class turns on the awful power of a lie.More

  4. Book ImageThe Bishop's Daughter

    Honor Moore

    “An eloquent argument for speaking even the most difficult truths.” —New York Times Book ReviewMore

  5. Book ImageThe White Blackbird

    Honor Moore

    “A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” —Arthur MillerMore

  6. Book ImageThe Painter from Shanghai

    Jennifer Cody Epstein

    “A historical novel on a grand scale . . . a dark love story, a triumphant tale of survival.” —Maureen HowardMore

  7. Book ImageBonk

    Mary Roach

    “Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

  8. Book ImageThe Abyssinian Proof

    Jenny White

    "An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah GravesMore

  9. Book ImageThe Age of Shiva

    Manil Suri

    "A stunning novel, proof that Manil Suri is a major storyteller of heart and intelligence." —Amy TanMore

  10. Book ImageSomeone Knows My Name

    Lawrence Hill

    "Wonderfully written...as in the slave narratives that inspired it, language is power."—Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  11. Book ImageOrpheus Lost

    Janette Turner Hospital

    A Library Journal Best Book and Booklist Editor's Choice: "This astonishingly rich novel...will entrance readers."—Library Journal, starred reviewMore

  12. Book ImageThe Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken

    Laura Schenone

    A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.More

  13. Book ImageThe Air We Breathe

    Andrea Barrett

    "An evocative panorama of America...on the cusp of enormous change" (Newsday) by the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever.More

  14. Book ImageThe Last Chicken in America

    Ellen Litman

    "[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

  15. Book ImageThe Zookeeper's Wife

    Diane Ackerman

    2008 Orion Book Award

    The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

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