"The Lowland" by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri is on author Emma Donoghue's summer reading list. It's a family drama that takes place in India and the United States from the 1960s to the present.
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"The Lowland" by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri is on author Emma Donoghue's summer reading list. It's a family drama that takes place in India and the United States from the 1960s to the present.
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Also on Donoghue's list: "The Snow Queen" from Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham. It is a story about two brothers on very different paths to enlightenment.
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Also on Donoghue's list: "The Snow Queen" from Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham. It is a story about two brothers on very different paths to enlightenment.
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Donoghue also plans to pick up "Someone..." by Alice McDermott. The book shares one woman's journey from childhood to old age.
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Donoghue also plans to pick up "Someone..." by Alice McDermott. The book shares one woman's journey from childhood to old age.
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Author Joshua Ferris plans to read the 1968 classic, "Desert Solitaire," by Edward Abbey. The autobiographical work from the legendary author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang" captures Abbey's three seasons as a park ranger in Utah.
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Author Joshua Ferris plans to read the 1968 classic, "Desert Solitaire," by Edward Abbey. The autobiographical work from the legendary author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang" captures Abbey's three seasons as a park ranger in Utah.
Simon & Schuster
Also on Ferris' summer reading list is the critically acclaimed novel "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell. It's about a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself after World War II as a family man in France.
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Also on Ferris' summer reading list is the critically acclaimed novel "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell. It's about a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself after World War II as a family man in France.
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Author Michael Koryta says he's looking forward to Alafair Burke's "All Day and a Night," a legal thriller about a murder in New York and questions of innocence surrounding a convicted serial killer.
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Author Michael Koryta says he's looking forward to Alafair Burke's "All Day and a Night," a legal thriller about a murder in New York and questions of innocence surrounding a convicted serial killer.
Harper
Koryta has several nonfiction titles on his summer reading list, including "In the Kingdom of Ice" by Hampton Sides, a "white-knuckle tale" of polar exploration in the late 19th century.
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Koryta has several nonfiction titles on his summer reading list, including "In the Kingdom of Ice" by Hampton Sides, a "white-knuckle tale" of polar exploration in the late 19th century.
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Koryta also plans to read "In Paradise," the last book by the late Peter Matthiessen, about a spiritual retreat at the site of the World War II concentration camp Auschwitz.
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Koryta also plans to read "In Paradise," the last book by the late Peter Matthiessen, about a spiritual retreat at the site of the World War II concentration camp Auschwitz.
Riverhead Hardcover
Koryta also plans to read "The Son" by Jo Nesbo, Norway's best-selling crime writer. It's a dark thriller about a young man who breaks out of prison seeking revenge for his father's death.
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Koryta also plans to read "The Son" by Jo Nesbo, Norway's best-selling crime writer. It's a dark thriller about a young man who breaks out of prison seeking revenge for his father's death.
Random House
Koryta and author Sarah Lotz said they're looking forward to reading Stephen King's new novel, "Mr. Mercedes" when it hits shelves in June. It's described as King's first "hard-boiled detective tale" about the search for a hit-and-run killer.
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Koryta and author Sarah Lotz said they're looking forward to reading Stephen King's new novel, "Mr. Mercedes" when it hits shelves in June. It's described as King's first "hard-boiled detective tale" about the search for a hit-and-run killer.
Scribner
Lotz is planning to read "Murder" by British novelist Sarah Pinborough. It's a thriller about a police surgeon in London in the era of Jack the Ripper.
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Lotz is planning to read "Murder" by British novelist Sarah Pinborough. It's a thriller about a police surgeon in London in the era of Jack the Ripper.
Jo Fletcher Books
Also on Lotz's summer reading list is "Broken Monsters," by South African author Lauren Beukes. Her latest is described as a "genre-bending" crime thriller set in Detroit.
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Also on Lotz's summer reading list is "Broken Monsters," by South African author Lauren Beukes. Her latest is described as a "genre-bending" crime thriller set in Detroit.
Harper Collins
Lotz is eagerly anticipating David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks," another sweeping and surreal novel like his previous best-seller, "Cloud Atlas." It takes place in wildly different settings and times, from the medieval Swiss Alps to modern-day Iraq. The novel doesn't go on sale until September, but there's a perk to being an author: Lotz plans to read an advance copy this summer.
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Lotz is eagerly anticipating David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks," another sweeping and surreal novel like his previous best-seller, "Cloud Atlas." It takes place in wildly different settings and times, from the medieval Swiss Alps to modern-day Iraq. The novel doesn't go on sale until September, but there's a perk to being an author: Lotz plans to read an advance copy this summer.
Sceptre
Romance writer Jojo Moyes has Emma Straub's "The Vacationers" on her summer reading list. In the book, jealousy and secrets bubble to the surface during a dysfunctional family's two-week vacation in Mallorca.
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Romance writer Jojo Moyes has Emma Straub's "The Vacationers" on her summer reading list. In the book, jealousy and secrets bubble to the surface during a dysfunctional family's two-week vacation in Mallorca.
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