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Lesser-Known Fiction   Put down that John Grisham thriller and pick up one of these lesser-known books of fiction. Each of them will challenge and toy with you, but ultimately leave you satisfied and mystified. The 25th Hour by David Benioff   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Plume Books Natasha - And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Farrar, Straus and Giroux Follow Mark Berman and his family of Russian-Jewish immigrants as they adjust to life in America and interact with the strangest and saddest of characters. Father and Son - A Novel by Larry Brown   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Owl Books Winner of the Southern Book Award. Larry Brown, the modern-day Faulkner, introduces a 60's Mississippi town and an ex-con returning there in this modern classic. Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Knopf Modern fables by the new master of the short story. McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories by Michael Chabon (Editor)   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Vintage 20 tales to throw you for a loop and into another dimension by Jonathan Lethem, Stephen King, Daniel Handler, Joyce Carol Oates and others. The Final Solution - A Story Of Detection by Michael Chabon   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Fourth Estate A certain famous detective comes out of retirement to solve a murder case that involves a German code spewing parrot. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Penguin Books J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, sets this novel about a professor and his daughter in post-apartheid South Africa. The professor struggles to cope with a horrific incident that he witnesses on his daighter's farm. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Houghton Mifflin You'll find yourself unable to blink as you follow Foer's 9 year-old narrator from Central Park to Hiroshima in search of a mysterious lock. The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Penguin Classics James makes another turn of the screw in these stories that haunt and deceive the reader, even if they are unaware of the deception. Do you know how to rid your mind of the figure in the carpet? Out by Natsuo Kirino   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Kodansha International “Scarily omniscient. . . . Like Walter Mosley, [Kirino] exploits the beat-down potential of the hard-boiled novel to depict life on society's bottom in ways that subtly read as one part social protest, one part sadomasochistic entertainment.” –The Village Voice Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Warner Books Imagine a world where time moves in circles or a world where time can be kept in a jar and you will see what it is like to experience Einstein's Dreams. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Vintage It takes Florentino Ariza fifty years, nine months, and four days to declare his love for Fermino Daza for the second time. But she is worth the wait. Asylum by Patrick McGrath   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Vintage Only bad things will come from forbidden love in a mental institution. Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer - A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Perennial A spinoff of the white whale tale that imagines Ahab's wife during and after the fatal voyage of the Pequod. The Tattooed Girl - A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Ecco Joyce Carol Oates, one of literatures most enduring and prolific writers, explores her newly discovered Jewish Identity in this dramatic tale. Ishmael - An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Bantam Daniel Quin explains through the narration of a talking ape why human beings are the way we are and why the road we are taking is leading to our destruction. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Overlook Press Have trouble making decisions? So does Luke Rhinheart, the narrator of The Dice Man, who decides to let his dice make every decision for him, leading him on an unexpected journey filled with sex, mayhem and adventure. Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Vintage Tissues won't be enough to stop the tears of this too real to be fiction story of two families torn apart by a car accident. The Contrarians - A Novel by Gary Sernovitz   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Henry Holt & Company A young hotshot wall street type finds himself in a messy situation after a magazine profile on him reveals too much. Old School by Tobias Wolff   [see details | buy at Amazon.com] Vintage

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