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   A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

   Dave Eggers

   A manic, self-aware sprint through the devastating and absurd landscape of sudden orphanhood.

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   What Is the What

   Dave Eggers

   An epic, harrowing, yet surprisingly warm testament to human endurance across continents and decades.

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   Less

   Andrew Sean Greer

   A sparkling, globe-trotting comedy of errors about outrunning heartbreak and accidentally stumbling into grace.

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   Up in the Air

   Walter Kirn

   A witty, perceptive dive into the sterile comforts and psychic costs of a perpetually airborne, rootless existence.

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   Vineland

   Thomas Pynchon · 2003

   A paranoid, neon-soaked fever dream mourning the death of the 1960s counterculture through a haze of television static and government surveillance.

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   Infinite Jest

   David Foster Wallace · 1996

   A sprawling, tragicomic labyrinth of footnotes and hyper-articulate despair that asks what it means to be entertained to death.

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   • absurd
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   A Prayer for Owen Meany

   John Irving · 1989

   A sprawling, tragicomic meditation on faith, destiny, and the enduring ghosts of childhood friendship.

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   Wonder Boys

   Michael Chabon · 2006

   A chaotic, weed-hazed weekend of literary crises and autumnal melancholy that ultimately finds grace in letting go.

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   Then we came to the end

   Joshua Ferris

   A brilliantly deadpan, hive-mind chronicle of the absurdities, anxieties, and unexpected intimacies of modern office life.

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    White Teeth

    Zadie Smith

    A sprawling, riotous tragicomedy that captures the messy, vibrant collision of cultures and generations in modern London.

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    Eastern standard tribe

    Cory Doctorow

    A manic, tech-fueled satire of digital tribalism and corporate espionage told from inside a psychiatric ward.

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    • manic
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    We are okay

    Nina LaCour

    A hushed, wintry meditation on the profound loneliness of grief and the quiet courage it takes to let someone back in.

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