Play It as It Lays

A woman attempts to escape from ennui by taking to the freeway in this blistering novel by Joan Didion.

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White Teeth

Contemporary London is depicted in all of its cultural complexities in this sprawling novel by Zadie Smith.

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Orfeo

An elderly composer becomes a fugitive suspected of bioterrorism in this lively novel by Richard Powers.

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