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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
2021
Anthony Doerr is one of the most beautifully lyrical authors writing today. "All the Light We …
Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride
2021
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Ob…
Editors Pick
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
2022
Bonnie Garmus debut novel, "Lessons in Chemistry", is a delightful book about a chemist n…
Luster: A Novel
Raven Leilani
2020
Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani is a New York Times Bestseller and Best Book of the Year. Winner o…
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
2013
Fredrik Backman, the Swedish author best known for his book "A Man Called Ove", has a kna…
One Two Three
Laurie Frankel
2021
Laurie Frankel has been one of my happy discoveries since opening Thornwell Books. Like James McBri…
Shrines of Gaiety
Kate Atkinson
2022
The latest novel from award winning author Kate Atkinson, "Shrines of Gaiety" is a sprawl…
The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
2022
The most delightful element of "The Latecomer" is the ironic deadpan humor of the narrati…
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
2021
Amor Towles has written a quintessentially American Odyssey, a “coming of age” story, following the…
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
The mystery genre has only 2 basic requirements, an apparent crime, most often murder, and an attem…
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
2022
I have noticed a resurgence recently in classic "closed circle" mysteries. If you aren…