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A library copy of a mysterious novel, filled with margin notes and loose postcards, letters and a map, in which two readers hunt for the truth about its author and fall for each other.
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Ilustrado
A young Filipino writer in New York investigates the death of his mentor, a famous exiled novelist pulled from the Hudson, and his own story tangles with fragments of the dead man's work.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
In 1960s Chicago, a ten-year-old girl who draws herself as a werewolf investigates the murder of her Holocaust-survivor upstairs neighbour in a spiral notebook full of wolf-eyes.
Pale Fire
A deranged scholar's commentary on a 999-line poem by a dead colleague becomes a hallucinatory novel about exile, madness, and the impossibility of knowing another person.
A Maggot
In 1736, a group of travellers in the English countryside encounters something inexplicable, and the investigation that follows questions the nature of truth, faith, and evidence.
The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
Possession
Two modern academics discover a cache of love letters between two Victorian poets and become entangled in a parallel romance of their own.
The Book of Form and Emptiness
A 13-year-old boy begins to hear the voices of the objects around him after his father's death, and his mother's hoarding and his own listening take him to the library.
This Side of Paradise
A Princeton undergraduate moves through love affairs and literary ambitions in the disillusioned aftermath of the Great War.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1998 Raquel Toledo, a first-generation art history student at Yale from Brooklyn, comes across the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban-born artist whose death in 1985 left her famous sculptor husband a widower and her own work forgotten.
Death in Her Hands
Vesta Gul, a widow in her seventies, finds a note in the woods near her cabin saying that a woman named Magda is dead and nobody will ever know who killed her, and with no body to be found, she begins to imagine who Magda was.
The Crow Road
Home for a funeral, student Prentice McHoan starts looking into the disappearance of his uncle Rory, a writer who vanished years before, in a novel that is part mystery, part family saga and part love letter to Argyll.