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Is there anything better than giving (or receiving) a book as a gift? Below you’ll find our recommendations for our favorite novels to share this year.

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    James

    by Percival Everett

    A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
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    Funny Story

    by Emily Henry

    A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
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    The Life Impossible

    by Matt Haig

    The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library. When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook, and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
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    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    by James McBride

    From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
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    Here One Moment

    by Liane Moriarty

    If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.
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    Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Rachel Khong

    From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
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    North Woods

    by Daniel Mason

    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
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    All the Colors of the Dark: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Chris Whitaker

    From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer … an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl).
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    Lies and Weddings

    by Kevin Kwan

    From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners.
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    The God of the Woods

    by Liz Moore

    When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide. Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
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    The Husbands: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Holly Gramazio

    The Husbands — “a bottomless champagne flute of a novel” (The Washington Post) — delights in asking: How do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options?
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    Good Material: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Dolly Alderton

    From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: A story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.
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    Martyr!

    by Kaveh Akbar

    A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
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    Long Island Compromise

    by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    by Gabrielle Zevin

    Sam and Sadie — two college friends, often in love, but never lovers — become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.
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    Table for Two

    by Amor Towles

    Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: Six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.
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    Wandering Stars

    by Tommy Orange

    The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There (“Pure soaring beauty.” —The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
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    Bear

    by Julia Phillips

    From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods — “a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week).
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    Tell Me Everything: Oprah’s Book Club

    by Elizabeth Strout

    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old love, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
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    Catalina

    by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

    A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom.
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    Until August

    by Gabriel García Márquez

    The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude — a moving tale of female desire and abandon.
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    All Fours

    by Miranda July

    The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.
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    The City and Its Uncertain Walls

    by Haruki Murakami

    From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these peculiar times.
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    The Book of Elsewhere

    by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

    An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books.
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    The Black Bird Oracle

    by Deborah Harkness

    Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself — and her family history — in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series, hailed as “your next favorite fantasy read” (Harper’s Bazaar).
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    The Bright Sword

    by Lev Grossman

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.
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