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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux recommended by Mark Paprocki

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres recommended by Scott Lambert

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn recommended by Nancy Quinn

How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster recommended by Susan Gusho

Peace by Richard Bausch recommended by Carol Grossmeyer

The Outlander by Gil Adamson recommended by Stacie Williams

Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen recommended by Anne Wilde

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff recommended by Jerry Kannel

Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein recommended by Daniel Goldin

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan recommended by Nancy Quinn

Serena by Ron Rash recommended by Jerry Kannel

The Leanin' Dog by K. A. Nuzum recommended by Linda Schmidt

Little Face by Sophie Hannah recommended by Lisa Zupke

City of Thieves by David Benioff recommended by Sarah Marine

Fanny by Holly Hobbie recommended by Barbara Katz

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier recommended by Catherine Wallberg

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn recommended by Scott Fultz

The Guernsey Literary and Potato-Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows recommended by Jane Glaser

Fault Lines by Nancy Huston recommended by Carol Grossmeyer

The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein and Stephen Bloom recommended by Nancy Quinn

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell recommended by Lanora Hurley

The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith recommended by Ken Favell

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery recommended by Jane Glaser

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett recommended by Beverly Segel

Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors recommended by Catherine Wallberg

Fault Lines by Nancy Huston recommended by Peggy Walker

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan recommended by Lanora Hurley

Anathem by Neal Stephenson recommended by Jason Kennedy

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer recommended by Nancy Quinn

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout recommended by Ken Favell

City of Thieves by David Benioff recommended by Dave Mallmann

Wally and Mae by Christa Kempster and Frauke Weldig recommended by Barbara Katz

Impossible by Nancy Werlin recommended by Pam Stilp

Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate Di Camillo and Harry Bliss recommended by Kathy Carrigan

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb recommended by Morgan Egge

Them by Nathan McCall recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Unpossessed City by Jon Fasman recommended by Jerry Kannel

Serena by Ron Rash recommended by Stacie Williams

The Unfinished Game by Keith Devlin recommended by Dave Mallmann

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti recommended by Ken Favell

Home by Marilynne Robinson recommended by Lisa Zupke

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay recommended by Morgan Egge

The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss recommended by Jerry Kannel

The Trouble with Dragons by Debi Gliori recommended by Sarah Marine

I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass recommended by Lisa Zupke

Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton recommended by Anne Wilde

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz recommended by Carol Grossmeyer

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb recommended by Lisa Zupke

Sundown, Yellow Moon by Larry Watson recommended by Carl Hoffman

Serena by Ron Rash recommended by Dave Mallmann

The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler recommended by Anne McMahon

A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres recommended by Conrad Silverberg

2666 by Roberto Bolano recommended by Bayard Godsave

A Mercy by Toni Morrison recommended by Lanora Hurley

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery recommended by Anne Wilde

Handmade Nation by Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl recommended by Sarah Marine

The Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Fire by Katherine Neville recommended by Sharon Nagel

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld recommended by Rebecca Rick

A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire recommended by Jerry Kannel

The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret recommended by Joe Lisberg

Oxygen by Carol Cassella recommended by Jenny Chou

The Robot and the Bluebird by David Lucas recommended by Sarah Marine

Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright recommended by Carl Hoffman

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery recommended by Daniel Goldin

Crunch! by Dirk Burhans recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Night Villa by Carol Goodman recommended by Sharon Nagel

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman recommended by Brian Grover

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman recommended by Kathy Carrigan

Awesome by Jack Pendarvis recommended by Justin Riley

The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton recommended by Nancy Quinn

Indignation by Philip Roth recommended by Dave Mallmann

Ritual by Mo Hayder recommended by Jerry Kannel

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan recommended by Sharry Sullivan

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan recommended by Jenny Chou

Tethered by Amy MacKinnon recommended by Lisa Zupke

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski recommended by Scott Fultz

When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta recommended by Dave Mallmann

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta recommended by Daniel Goldin

What Makes A Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli recommended by Daniel Goldin

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen recommended by David Mallmann

Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki recommended by Jenny Chou

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan recommended by Peggy Walker

Boone by Robert Morgan recommended by Jerry Kannel

Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee recommended by Anne Wilde

Graceling by Kristin Cashore recommended by Jason Kennedy

American Lightning by Howard Blum recommended by Jason Kennedy

The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt recommended by Daniel Goldin

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama recommended by Jane Glaser

The Watercooler Effect by Nicholas Difonzo recommended by Pattie Cox

The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith recommended by Macaela Willadsen

We Bought A Zoo by Benjamin Mee recommended by Anne Wilde

We Bought A Zoo by Benjamin Mee recommended by Macaela Willadsen

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway recommended by Jordan Gower

Daphne by Justine Picardie recommended by Anne McMahon

What I Talk About When I Talke About Running by Haruki Murakami recommended by Lanora Hurley

The Condition by Jennifer Haigh recommended by Morgan Egge