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Everyone’s Reading Bastard
By Nick Hornby
Newspaper columnist Elaine Harris has always written about her life with husband Charlie. Her readers count on full disclosure from her, but what no one—especially Charlie—anticipates, only a week after the couple decide to divorce, is the speed with which she crucifies him in print. Only a storyteller like Hornby—who’s given us so many unforgettable novels of comedy and heartbreak (High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet, Naked)—could conceive of an average guy trying to survive an ex’s wrath gone viral. His latest rollicking account of love’s fallout should be instructive: Sometimes no one wins. Sorry, Charlie.
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You Were Never Really Here
By Jonathan Ames
A hero whose favorite weapon is a hammer clearly has issues. Meet Joe, an ass-kicking and psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself. A former Marine and ex–FBI agent, he has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma. Solitary and haunted, Joe prefers to be invisible, making his living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, he uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. In this shocking and suspenseful new novella, Ames—novelist, essayist, and creator of the HBO series Bored to Death—goes darker than noir.
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Nonfiction
Here’s the Deal by David Leonhardt
My Mother’s Bible by Walter Kirn
Final Vision by Joe McGinniss
Finding the Devil by William Langewiesche
Falling by Alexandra Fuller
15 Gothic Street, Episode Two: The Human Circus by Joe McGinniss
The Living and the Dead by Brian Mockenhaupt
Rough Beasts by Charles Siebert
Between Heaven and Hell by Bob Shacochis
43* by Jeff Greenfield
Mob Fest ’29 by Bill Tonelli
15 Gothic Street, Episode One: Primitives by Joe McGinniss
The Fire Horse by Elizabeth Mitchell
All My Love, Samples Later by Craig Vetter
How to Get Away with Murder in America by Evan Wright
The Ghost by Paige Williams
After Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
Farthest North by Todd Balf
Lifeboat No. 8 by Elizabeth Kaye
Sober Is My New Drunk by Paul Carr
One Way Forward by Lawrence Lessig
The Secret World of Saints by Bill Donahue
A Killing in Iowa by Rachel Corbett
Joan by Sara Davidson
Lady with a Past by Elizabeth Mitchell
Sleeping with Famous Men by Elizabeth Kaye
The Cartel by Taylor Branch
The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett
Cooking Solves Everything by Mark Bittman
The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin by Elizabeth Mitchell
The Baby Chase by Holly Finn
Planet Killers by Tad Friend
I Hope Like Heck by Michael Solomon
And the War Came by Jamie Malanowski
Into the Forbidden Zone by William T. Vollmann
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer
Fiction
Nate in Venice by Richard Russo
You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
Positron, Episode Three: Erase Me by Margaret Atwood
A World Made of Blood by Sebastian Junger
Genie by Richard Powers
Shakedown by James Ellroy
Positron, Episode Two: Choke Collar by Margaret Atwood
An Arrangement of Light by Nicole Krauss
The Boy Vanishes by Jennifer Haigh
Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby
Don’t Eat Cat by Jess Walter
Positron, Episode One: I’m Starved for You by Margaret Atwood
Rules for Virgins by Amy Tan