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March haul

- Mickey by Chelsea Martin

- The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell

- Devotion by Ros Barber

- Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown

- Some Women by Emily Liebert 

- Monterey Bay by Lindsay Hatton

- The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz 

- Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: Book 2 in the Tale of Shikanoko by Lian Hearn

- Beasts & Children by Amy Parker

- Martin John by Anakana Schofield

- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

-  The Dinner Party by Brenda Janowitz 

- Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade

- Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor

- Shelter by Jung Yun

- Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey

- Ann Tenna by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

- Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta

- The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray

- Peacekeeping by Mischa Berlinski

- The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs

- Knockout by John Jodzio

- The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives by James P. Blaylock (Author), J. K. Potter (Illustrator)

- High Dive by Jonathan Lee

- Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma

- The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock

- Last Train from Perdition (I Travel By Night) by Robert McCammon

- The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson

- A Man of Genius by Janet Todd

- Early Days: More Tales from the Pulp Era by Robert Silverberg

- The Children by Ann Leary

- The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott

- Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

- The Good House by Tananarive Due

- Late One Night by Lee Martin

- Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto by Lesley Hazleton

- Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

- Motorcycles I’ve Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton

- Clothed, Female Figure: Stories by Kirstin Allio

- The Edge of the Fall by Kate Williams

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More books, pt. 8

- The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw

- The Face: Cartography of the Void by Chris Abani

- The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki

- Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee

- The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg (Author), Anna Paterson (Translator)

- The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler

- This Is Not My Beautiful Life: A Memoir by Victoria Fedden

- Too Bad To Die by Francine Matthews

- Shelter by Jung Yun

- The Pharos Gate: Griffin & Sabine's Missing Correspondence and Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock

- The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand

- You May See a Stranger: Stories by Paula Whyman

- The Devils of Cardona by Matthew Carr

- The North Water by Ian McGuire

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More books, pt. 7

- All the Time in the World by Caroline Angell

- An Innocent Fashion by RJ Hernandez

- Born to Drum: The Truth About the World's Greatest Drummers--from John Bonham and Keith Moon to Sheila E. and Dave Grohl by Tony Barrell

- Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces by Ian Frazier

- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

- Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto

- Man & Wife by Katie Chase

- Kind One by Laird Hunt

- A Death in Summer and Vengeance by Benjamin Black

- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

- The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

- Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi

- The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe

- Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold

- Snakewood by Adrian Selby

- West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein

- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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More books, pt. 6

- When Breath Becomes Air - by Paul Kalanithi

- City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

- Bettyville by George Hodgman

- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

- The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

- Why The Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates

- God is Round by Juan Villoro (Author), Thomas Bunstead (Translator)

- Cosmic Hotel by Russ Franklin

- Jay to Bee: Janet Frame's Letters to William Theophilus Brown by Janet Frame

- The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday

- The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest

- Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips

- North of Here by Laurel Saville

- Cat Shout for Joy by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

- The Sadness by Benjamin Rybeck

- Ear to the Ground by David L. Ulin and Paul Kolsby

- A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi

- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi

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More books, pt. 5

- Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck by Peter Manseau

- The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell

- Killer Deal by Sofie Sarenbrant

- The Telling by Zoe Zolbrod

- We’ve Already Gone This Far by Patrick Dacey

- Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits by Mark Binelli

- The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell

- The High Places by Fiona McFarlane

- Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters

- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

- Black Apple by Joan Crate

- The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay

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More books, pt. 4

- Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Author), Alfred MacAdam (Translator)

- The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr 

- Emperor of the Eight Islands: Book 1 in the Tale of Shikanoko (The Tale of Shikanoko series) by Lian Hearn

- Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić 

- The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah 

- The Prisoner of Hell Gate by Dana I. Wolff

- Losing It by Emma Rathbone

- The Yoga of My Discontent by Karan Bajaj

- Weathering by Lucy Wood

- Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

- Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler

- A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain 

- Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding 

- Invincible Summer by Alice Adams

- Travelers Rest by Keith Lee Morris

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More books, pt. 3

- Fardwor, Russia!: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin by Oleg Kashin (Author), Will Evans (Translator)

- Cat Country by Lao She

- The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck

- War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite

- The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas

- A Draker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

- The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo (Author), Lola Rogers (Translator)

- The Crooked House by Christobel Kent

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More books, pt. 2

- Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox

- Square Wave by Mark de Silva

- Everything I Found on the Beach by Cynan Jones

- Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim Sultan

- Desert Boys: Fiction by Chris McCormick 

- Vexation Lullaby by Justin Tussing

- Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton

- The God’s Eye View by Barry Eisler

- The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas

- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

- The After Party by Anton DiSclafani

- Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh

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More books, pt.1

- Almost Everything Very Fast by Christopher Kloeble (Author), Aaron Kerner (Translator)

- Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea

- Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett

- The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks

- The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal  (Author), Sam Taylor (Translator)

- The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

- American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis

- The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

- Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin

- Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise Parker

- The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian

- The Vegetarian by Han Kang

- Georgia by Dawn Tripp

- Version Control by Dexter Palmer

- A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan

- Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor

- Sherwood Nation by Benjamin Parzybok

- The Liminal People, The Liminal War, and The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett

- Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer (Author), Amalia Gladhart (Translator)

- The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar

- The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

- Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders by Brady Carlson

- Just Fall by Nina Sadowsky

- Eleanor by Jason Gurley

- Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman

- The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee

- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

- Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

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Catching up, pt. 5

- Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal (Author), Paul Wilson (Translator)

- The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk (Author), Christopher Moseley (Translator)

- Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan Howard

- The Secret Lives of Bats by Merlin Tuttle

- Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

- The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

- The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome by Serge Brussolo 

- The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor

- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

- The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright

- The Great Forgetting by James Renner

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Catching up, pt. 4

- Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser

- Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen

- Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand 

- Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

- True Stories at the Smoky View by Jill McCroskey Coupe 

- Lies in the Dust: A Tale of Remorse from the Salem Witch Trials by Jakob Crane and Timothy Decker

- Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James and Philip Horne

- Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York by Githa Hariharan

- The Restaurant Critic's Wife by Elizabeth LaBan

- Silence by Shūsaku Endō 

- The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh

- The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

- The Bourbon Kings by J. R. Ward

- The Traitor’s Mark by D. K. Wilson

- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

- True Crimes by Kathryn Harrison

- The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton

- The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende 

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Catching up, pt. 3

- Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

- Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss

- Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann

- Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow by Fabienne Josaphat

- Deep Singh Blue by Ranbir Singh Sidhu

- Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt 

- The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

- The Butcher Bird by S. D. Sykes

- The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir

- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

- On Cats by Charles Bukowski

- Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre by Michael Knox Beran

- One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad

- Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen

- Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes

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Catching up, pt. 2

- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

- Chocky by John Wyndham

- The Door by Magda Szabó

- The Civil War Soldier: Includes over 700 Key Weapons, Uniforms, & Insignia by Angus Konstam 

- Oreo by Fran Ross

- Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth

- Pillow by Andrew Battershill

- Riot Most Uncouth by Daniel Friedman

- Early Warning and Golden Age by Jane Smiley

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Catching up, pt. 1

- Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

- Hystopia by David Means

- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny by Justin Hill and Wang Dulu

- What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

- Blood Defense by Marcia Clark

- Tasa’s Song by Linda Kass

- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

- Hold Still by Lynn Steger Strong

- Septimania by Jonathan Levi

- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

- The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

- Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe

- Give Us a Kiss by Daniel Woodrell

- The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson

- The Just City and The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton

- Dead Run by Dan Schultz

- Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre

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2016 catching up, pt. 7

- Dinner by by César Aira

- Revenge of the Phantom Furball #2 (Undead Pets) by Sam Hay and Simon Cooper

- Lady into Fox by David Garnett and R.A. Garnett 

- Freeman’s: Arrival edited by John Freeman

- The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson

- Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman

- Rutabaga the Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal

- The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff

- Juba! by Walter Dean Myers

- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

- Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell

- The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott

- The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon

- Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann

- Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Audrey Niffenegger

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2016 catching up, pt. 6

- The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms by Ian Thornton

- The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

- Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

- Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

- Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein

- Life and Other Near-Death Experiences by Camille Pagán

- The Palest Ink by Kay Bratt

- Smoke by Catherine McKenzie

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2016 catching up, pt. 5

- Last Night’s Reading by Kate Gavino

- A Brothers Grimm Coloring Book and Other Classic Fairy Tales: Escape into a World of Fantasy and Imagination by Adam Fisher

- Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

- Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimute

- Rus Like Everyone Else by Bette Adriaanse

- North of Here by Laurel Seville

- Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

- We Five by Mark Dunn

- The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found by Jeanne Safer

- Son of the Morning by Mark Adler

- A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance edited by Belinda McKeon