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Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
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Bernardine Evaristo
(91,002)
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains,...
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Bernardine Evaristo
(89,932)
Summary: "Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain...
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Call #: F EVARISTO
Location: Adult Fiction
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Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale - #2
(227,855)
Summary: "In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the...
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Call #: F ATWOOD
Location: Adult Fiction
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George Saunders
(124,797)
Summary: Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a...
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Call #: F SAUNDERS
Location: Adult Fiction
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J. M Coetzee
Series:
Jesus Series
(1,785)
Summary: From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. "When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all...
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Call #: F COETZEE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Ottessa Moshfegh
(34,884)
Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father|s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of...
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Call #: F MOSHFEGH
Location: Adult Fiction
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Madeleine Thien
(17,786)
Summary: "In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old." Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside...
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Call #: F THIEN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Sunjeev Sahota
(8,090)
Summary: The lives of three young men, and one unforgettable woman, intertwine over the course of one year after they immigrate from India to Sheffield, England.
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Call #: F SAHOTA
Location: Adult Fiction
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Elizabeth Strout
(114,389)
Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's...
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Call #: F STROUT
Location: Adult Fiction
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Paul Beatty
(58,784)
Summary: A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man; s...
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Chigozie Obioma
(14,903)
Summary: "Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria, in the small town...
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Call #: F OBIOMA
Location: Adult Fiction
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Bill Clegg
(25,241)
Summary: "On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiance, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend,...
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Call #: F CLEGG
Location: Adult Fiction
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Anne Enright
(12,550)
Summary: "Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart."--Dust jacket flap.
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Call #: F ENRIGHT
Location: Adult Fiction
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Tom McCarthy
(4,954)
Summary: "When we first meet U., the narrator of SATIN ISLAND, he is sitting in the airport at Turin, caught in a delay caused by a rogue airplane. Like everyone else in the waiting area, he is sifting...
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Call #: F MCCARTHY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Siri Hustvedt
(7,104)
Summary: "When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late...
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Call #: F HUSTVEDT
Location: Adult Fiction
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Richard Flanagan
(48,703)
Summary: "A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--
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Call #: F FLANAGAN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Howard Jacobson
(3,388)
Summary: "In a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. After the devastation of WHAT...
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Call #: F JACOBSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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Marlon James
(28,400)
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob...
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Call #: F JAMES
Location: Adult Fiction
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Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Series
(27,436)
Summary: Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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Call #: F ROBINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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David Mitchell
(87,276)
Summary: A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try...
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Call #: F MITCHELL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Joshua Ferris
(14,239)
Summary: "Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan...
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Call #: F FERRIS
Location: Adult Fiction
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Karen Joy Fowler
(106,548)
Summary: Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
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Call #: F FOWLER
Location: Adult Fiction
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Hilary Mantel
Series:
Wolf Hall Trilogy - #2
(77,286)
Summary: "The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for...
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Call #: F MANTEL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Julian Barnes
(150,852)
Summary: This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another...
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Call #: F BARNES
Location: Adult Fiction
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Hilary Mantel
Series:
Wolf Hall Trilogy - #1
(171,974)
Summary: Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn't stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels,...
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Call #: F MANTEL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Aravind Adiga
(160,617)
Summary: Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and...
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Call #: F ADIGA
Location: Adult Fiction
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Salman Rushdie
(105,657)
Summary: The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a...
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Call #: F RUSHDIE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Kiran Desai
(47,814)
Summary: Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency...
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Call #: F DESAI
Location: Adult Fiction
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John Banville
(25,754)
Summary: The author of The Untouchable ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"-Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable...
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Call #: F BANVILLE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Yann Martel
(1,359,728)
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous...
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Call #: F MARTEL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood
(137,497)
Summary: Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.For the past...
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Call #: F ATWOOD
Location: Adult Fiction
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J. M Coetzee
(89,182)
Summary: From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker-Prize-winning Life & Times of Michael K, a dazzling new novel--his first in five yearsDisgrace--set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on...
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Call #: F COETZEE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Ian McEwan
(44,592)
Summary: On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane.Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days...
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Call #: F MCEWAN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Arundhati Roy
(248,305)
Summary: "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the...
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Call #: F ROY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Barry Unsworth
(6,333)
Summary: Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."-David Halberstam Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power,...
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Call #: F UNSWORTH
Location: Adult Fiction
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Michael Ondaatje
(114,739)
Summary: The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling...
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Call #: F ONDAATJE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Kazuo Ishiguro
(204,267)
Summary: The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career...
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Call #: F ISHIGURO
Location: Adult Fiction
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