Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4285

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4285

Eighteen recent literary novels in near-new condition, several of them publisher’s proofs: Colson Whitehead twice (The Nickel Boys proof and Crook Manifesto), Patricia Lockwood, Colum McCann’s Apeirogon, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Deepa Anappara, Maddie Mortimer, Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, Reif Larsen, Francesca de Tores, Jessica Johns, Anne O’Brien and Lauren Chater. The prize-list shelf, with the Booker and Pulitzer on it.

1. I Am Radar — Reif Larsen — Radar Radmanovic is born black to white parents in New Jersey, and the explanation runs through a secret society of puppeteers performing in war zones from Cambodia to the Congo. Larsen’s second novel after T.S. Spivet, enormous and strange. Harvill Secker proof.
2. Crook Manifesto — Colson Whitehead — Ray Carney, furniture salesman and sometime fence, in 1970s Harlem: Jackson Five tickets, a blaxploitation film shoot, and the arson racket. The sequel to Harlem Shuffle, from the two-time Pulitzer winner, and the funnier book.
3. Cast Away — Francesca de Tores — Robinson Crusoe retold from the island, by the author who was Francesca Haig. Bloomsbury hardback.
4. This Is Where the Serpent Lives — Daniyal Mueenuddin — A Pakistani family’s land, a marriage and a betrayal, from the author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Epic storytelling from a singular voice, says Arifa Akbar.
5. The Last of Earth — Deepa Anappara — The second novel from the Djinn Patrol author, set on a disappearing coast. Riveting, says Laila Lalami; a triumph.
6. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies — Maddie Mortimer — Lia has cancer, and the cancer narrates, in a typographically wild novel about a mother and daughter. Booker longlist; original, memorable, shimmering, says Sarah Moss.
7. Gulliver’s Wife — Lauren Chater — Mary Gulliver, midwife, keeps the household while Lemuel is away, and then he comes home talking about tiny people. The Lace Weaver author’s Swift reimagining.
8. The Bride Stone — Sally Gardner — A Regency bride, a stone with a secret, and a marriage that isn’t what it seems. From the Costa winner, in the floral hardback.
9. Will There Ever Be Another You — Patricia Lockwood — The follow-up to No One Is Talking About This: illness, the internet, and a mind coming apart in sentences. A completely singular talent, says Sally Rooney.
10. A Marriage of Fortune — Anne O’Brien — The Paston women of fifteenth-century Norfolk, from the letters. A terrific storyteller, says the Telegraph.
11. The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead — Elwood Curtis, sent to a Florida reform school in 1962 for a crime he didn’t commit, and the boys who are buried behind it. Won the Pulitzer; based on the real Dozier School. Fleet proof, not for resale.
12. Bad Cree — Jessica Johns — Mackenzie wakes with a severed crow’s head in her hands and has to go home to Alberta to find out why. Cree horror; February 2023 advance reading copy. Scribe.
13. Every Day I Read — Hwang Bo-reum — From the Korean author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: a reader’s life. Translated by Shanna Tan. Bloomsbury.
14. Apeirogon — Colum McCann — An Israeli and a Palestinian, each with a daughter killed, become friends, in 1,001 numbered fragments. Booker longlist 2020; nothing like any book you’ve ever read, says Michael Cunningham.
15. A Line You Have Traced — Roisin Dunnett — Three women across three centuries, connected by a cat and a thread. The Ministry of Time crossed with Cloud Atlas, says Sng Tseng.
    1. The Library Book — Susan Orlean — The 1986 fire that destroyed four hundred thousand books in Los Angeles Public Library, who might have set it, and what a library is for. Enthralling and inspirational, says the Observer; from the Orchid Thief author.