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1. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything Is Illuminated" is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth. It is the inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, ... More
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3. The Floating World
by Cynthia Kadohata
This first novel from a young Japanese-American writer describes the coming of age of the 12-year-old narrator, herself Japanese-American. The time ... More
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4. The Scoundrel and the Optimist
by Maceo Montoya
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Nothing is easy when you are thirteen, and it's especially challenging when everyone thinks you're eight because you ... More
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5. Breakable You
With perfect pitch and a rare empathy, Morton is equally adept at portraying the life of the mind and how it plays out in the world, brilliantly ... More
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6. Turtle Belly
Sam, hero of "Turtle Belly", is a mixed blood with skin the color of a turtle's belly. In this coming-of-age story, Joel Monture describes Sam's ... More
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7. Offsides
by Kerry Madden-Lunsford
Liz Donegal, the eldest daughter in her Irish Catholic family, is responsible for minding her two younger brothers and sister. Her father is an ... More
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8. Gabriel's Gift
by Hanif Kureishi
Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel ... More
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9. Halfborn woman
by V. Diane WoodBrown
A debut novel describing a Florida girl's difficult coming of age during the 1970s. Arlen Nichols, the heroine, is 15 years old. She lives with her ... More
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10. Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban
by Lisa Wixon
Based on the successful Havana Honey series published by Salon.com, this genre-defying book tells the heartrending story of an American woman looking ... More
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11. Salvation
by Lucia Nevai
From the prize-winning author Lucia Nevai comes the smart, poignant, and richly imagined novel "Salvation," the coming of age story of Crane ... More
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12. Soledad
by Angie Cruz
From a talented young Dominican-American writer comes an evocative and funny debut novel about what happens when you take the woman out of the old ... More
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13. Ferris Beach
by Jill McCorkle
"A really fine read. . . . A thoroughly believable picture of growing up in a middle-class small-town family in the New South".--"The New York Times ... More
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14. The Art Student's War
by Brad Leithauser
In his sixth novel, Leithauser has realized a double feat of imagination: a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, and a ... More
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15. Hollow Ground
Debut novelist Stephen Marion offers not only the story of a father and son getting to know each other for the first time, but also that of a small ... More
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16. Stillwater
At the heart of this beautifully rendered novel is the story of fifteen-year-old Jamieson, a farm boy who finds first love with the unforgettable, ... More
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17. Lightning Song
by Lewis Nordan
Twelve-year-old Leroy Dearman lives on a llama farm in Mississippi where life seems just about perfect. Perfect, that is, until flamboyant Uncle ... More
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19. Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington
Determined to up their social status, Mrs. Adams and her daughter Alice make poignant, hilarious attempts to impose themselves on high society. Mrs. ... More
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20. A Widow for One Year
by John Irving
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her ... More
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21. Grub
by Elise Blackwell
Compassionate and pointedly funny, "Grub" reveals what the publishing industry does to writers--and what writers do to themselves and each other--for ... More
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22. Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp
by C D Payne
The revolt (and laughs) continue as Nick and Sheeni escape to Paris. Soon things go seriously (and hilariously) amiss. Oui, America's most dangerous ... More
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23. Ain't Gonna Be Same Fool
by April Sinclair
Coffee Will Make You Black, Sinclair's bestselling debut novel, introduced Stevie, a tough-talking, irresistible African-American girl growing up on ... More
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24. Memoirs of a Muse
by Lara Vapnyar
Humorous, charming, and written with the same beguiling grace and vividness as her story collection "There Are Jews in My House," Vapnyar's first ... More
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25. All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
by Larry McMurtry
Danny Deck is on the verge of success as an author when he flees Houston and hurtles unexpectedly into the hearts of three women: a girlfriend who ... More
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