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Adult Fiction - Literary Fiction
Updated April 14, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
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The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald's family and from his lifelong publisher. This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author's own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book...
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The keeper of lost things : a novel
Hogan, Ruth
Paper Book
Full of character, wit, and wisdom, The Keeper of Lost Things is heartwarming tale that will enchant fans of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Garden Spells, Mrs Queen Takes the Train, and The Silver Linings Playbook. Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair...
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The buried giant : [a novel]
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl...
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Language arts
Kallos, Stephanie
Paper Book
The new novel from the best-selling author ofBroken for You spins the stories of a dedicated teacher, his enigmatic son, and a wartime survivor into an affecting tale of love, loss, and handwriting. Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that...
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An object of beauty : a novel
Martin, Steve
Paper Book
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness....
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The giant's house : a romance
McCracken, Elizabeth.
Ebook
"McCracken mixes the proper amount of lunacy with exactly the right amount of sorrow. The blend is reminiscent of such late-20th-century treasures as The Accidental Tourist, The World According to Garp, or A Confederacy of Dunces."--Denver Post The...
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The ninth hour
McDermott, Alice
Paper Book
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2017 The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017 The Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017 Time Magazine's Top 10...
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The night guest
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been...
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Black swan green : a novel
Mitchell, David
Paper Book
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by...
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Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
From the author of Here One Moment and The Husband's Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE...
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Fish in exile
Nao, Vi Khi
Ebook
A couple loses their child in this poetic and devastating novel in which grief reaches "enthralling and mysterious pleasures" (Carol Maso). A couple named Catholic and Ethos struggle with the loss of their child. How? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs...
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The end of the day
North, Claire
Paper Book
A novel about life and death and a quest for moral purpose, by the acclaimed author of word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. "Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful." -- Kirkus "Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full...
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Romeo and/or Juliet : a chooseable-path adventure
North, Ryan
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller from the author of How to Invent Everything and To Be or Not To Be Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. In this choose...
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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
Semple, Maria.
Paper Book
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's...
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East of Eden
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of...
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The pale king : an unfinished novel
Wallace, David Foster.
Stand-alone player
Set in the oppressive fluorescent glow of an IRS tax-return processing center in Peoria, Illinois, The Pale King is a novel that confronts head-on one of the greatest challenges of life and art: the ordinary, the familiar, soul-dampening routine.
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