Man Gone Down

by Michael Thomas

Amazon says:
A beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. This is an extraordinary debut novel about what it feels like to be pre-programmed to fail in life -- and the urge to escape that sentence.

432 page paperback |$7.44 |22 reviews

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson, Anne Born

Amazon says:
Panoramic and gripping, "Out Stealing Horses" tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the first pages, the reader's immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.

256 page paperback |$11.20 |61 reviews

Tree of Smoke

by Denis Johnson

Amazon says:
Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's masterpiece, a visionary, panoramic story of seven years in an impossible war. It moves between the story of William "Skip" Sands, a soldier engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong, and Bill and James Houston, two young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into all the chaos of Vietnam.

720 page paperback |$12.48 |73 reviews

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolano, Natasha Wimmer

Amazon says:
This dazzling novel tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes -- the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself -- on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

672 page paperback |$10.20 |35 reviews

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

Amazon says:
No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.

416 page paperback |$11.19 |180 reviews