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• Ancillary Justice

  Leckie, Ann

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  This multiple award winning series explores a civilization that does not distinguish by gender as well as the cultural differences that exist within a supposedly homogeneous interstellar empire.

• Blasphemy

  [New and Selected Stories]

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Sherman Alexie's writing style brings together humour and intelligence when exploring difficult topics and emotions.

• Dhalgren

  Delany, Samuel R.

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  "Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky." -- Novelist Plus

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  Gritty socially oriented speculative fiction set in a world wracked by tectonic cataclysms. Part of a trilogy that won the Hugo Award for best novel three consecutive times. Recommended for Atwood fans.

• The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  Lebowitz, Fran

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  An American humourist with clever insights akin to David Sedaris.

• The Heart's Invisible Furies

  Boyne, John, 1971-

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  This is a coming-of-age story about Cyril Avery and his search for identity and self-acceptance as he matures under the disapproving eye of the Irish Catholic church.

• Henry Henry

  a Novel

  Bratton, Allen

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  "Amidst the crumbling grandeur of his aristocratic family and the dawning of a new era, a young, queer Duke’s son navigates love, loss and the terrifying burden of legacy in a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henriad." -- Novelist Plus

• The Memory Police

  a Novel

  Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-

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  "An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed." -- Novelist Plus

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  This fantasy novel is written in the form of the journal of Piranesi, a man who lives in an infinite labyrinthine building. He meets the mysterious ‘Other’ who enlists him in searching for the ‘Great & Secret Knowledge’ of the ancients. Piranesi’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sea

  Banville, John

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  The Sea is a novel "about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory." Max is a retired art historian who returns to the boarding house where he grew up in order to reconcile what happened there many years ago. Winner of the 2005 Man Booker…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swann

  Shields, Carol

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  "Mary Swann submitted some poems to a newspaper just hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. The poems are works of genius, and are extraordinary coming from someone who led such a dull, sheltered life. In this novel four very different…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swimming in the Dark

  Jedrowski, Tomasz

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  "In early 1980s Poland during the violent decline of communism, two young men fall in love but eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide." -- Novelist Plus

• Woman on the Edge of Time

  Piercy, Marge

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  "Connie Ramos, a Chicana woman in her mid-thirties, living in New York and labeled insane, committed to a mental institution, is able to communicate with the year 2137." -- Publisher

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