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1. Anne Enright

   

   The Gathering (Grove) In Anne Enright’s Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the... (36 days ago)

2. Arnon Grunberg

   

   The Jewish Messiah (Penguin) Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg—-s novel takes p... (43 days ago)

3. William T. Vollman

   

   Riding Toward Everywhere (Ecco)William Vollman decided to spend as much time as possible viewing ... (50 days ago)

4. David Rieff

   

   Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir (Simon & Schuster)David Rieff accompanied hi... (57 days ago)

5. Geraldine Brooks

   

   People of the Book (Viking)The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. Wh... (64 days ago)

6. Lewis Hyde

   

   The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)How does the creative person fun... (71 days ago)

7. Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson

   

   Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New Y... (78 days ago)

8. Robert Hass

   

   Time and Materials: Poems 1997—-2005 (Ecco) If it can still be said that a poet can have a... (85 days ago)

9. Cees Nooteboom

   

   Lost Paradise (Grove) In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repe... (92 days ago)

10. Oliver Sacks

    

    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf) Oliver Sacks explores the brain’s affini... (99 days ago)

11. Russell Banks

    

    The Reserve (Harper)Russell Banks, one of the great living American novelists, uses the 1930̵... (106 days ago)

12. Edmund White

    

    Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel (Ecco)Here’s a literary historical enigma: Did Stephen Cra... (113 days ago)

13. James McCourt

    

    Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey (Turtle Point)This big, hilarious and joyful book has been tw... (120 days ago)

14. David Plante

    

    ABC (Pantheon) In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes lea... (127 days ago)

15. Ann Patchett

    

    Run (Harper Collins)The family in Ann Patchett’s Run unites rich with poor, black with whit... (134 days ago)

16. Viken Berberian

    

    Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster)Viken Berberian writes in a ... (232 days ago)

17. Marianne Wiggins

    

    The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster) With its fascinating combination of history, biography,... (239 days ago)

18. Miranda July

    

    No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Pres... (246 days ago)

19. Nathan Englander

    

    The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf)Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos to stand for all kinds ... (253 days ago)

20. Naeem Murr

    

    The Perfect Man (Random House)Naeem Murr’s work has been described as perverse—-but h... (260 days ago)