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9 best books like Park City: New and Selected Stories (Ann Beattie): The Future of Another Timeline, My Family and Other Animals, The Stranger Diaries, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, Marjorie Morningstar, Supernova Era, The Guest Book, Dancing After Hours, In the Heart of the Seas

The Future of Another Timeline
AuthorAnnalee Newitz
ISBN0765392127
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...
My Family and Other Animals
AuthorGerald Durrell
ISBN0142004413
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful...
The Stranger Diaries
AuthorElly Griffiths
ISBN1328577856
From the author of the beloved Ruth Galloway series, a modern gothic mystery for fans of Magpie Murders and The Lake House.

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one...
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
AuthorStuart Kelly
ISBN1400062977
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
Marjorie Morningstar
AuthorHerman Wouk
ISBN0316955132
A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams-working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family,...
Supernova Era
AuthorLiu Cixin
ISBN1250306035
From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science fiction masterpiece.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space.
In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.
On this night, history as known to humanity came to...
The Guest Book
AuthorSarah Blake
An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American...
Dancing After Hours
AuthorAndre Dubus
ISBN0679751149
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and...
In the Heart of the Seas
AuthorS.Y. Agnon
ISBN0805206477
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."

The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....
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